Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962

Hauser & Wirth Institute has produced an online catalogue raisonné of Franz Kline paintings made between 1950–1962, in cooperation with the Estate of Franz Kline. The Institute provided funding to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, to catalogue and digitize the Elisabeth Zogbaum papers regarding Franz Kline to support the catalogue raisonné research and enable unrestricted online access to the archive through the Archives of American Art’s website. These two initiatives  enrich scholarship on Franz Kline and increase public knowledge of his work and contributions to art history. Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962 provides researchers and the public free and open access to this definitive resource on Kline’s paintings from a watershed period in the career of this eminent American abstractionist.

Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962 has been developed under the direction of Kline scholar Dr. Robert Mattison, Marshall R. Metzger Professor of Art History.  Dr. Mattison’s scholarship on American modernism has included such artists as Arshile Gorky, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Theodoros Stamos. Dr. Mattison earned PhD and MFA degrees from Princeton University, an MA from Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, and a BA from Middlebury College.

Please note Hauser & Wirth Institute does not authenticate or provide valuations of Franz Kline artworks. We are not currently collecting information about works by Kline.