Salute to Franz Kline (1910–62), a leading Abstract-Expressionist painter.
A Birthday Gesture . . .
Salute to Franz Kline (1910–62), a leading Abstract-Expressionist painter.
The use of color in Blueberry Eyes is a departure from Kline's signature large-scale black-and-white compositions. He started by painting rather traditional figurative pictures, but changed his artistic direction in the early 1950s.
Pictured: Franz Kline, 1910–62, Blueberry Eyes, 1959–60, oil on paperboard, 40 1/8 x 29 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Woodward Foundation.