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Born: May 23, 1910
City and Country of Origin: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Painting School: Abstract Expressionist
Art Training: Boston Art Students League from 1931 to 1935; Heatherley’s Art School, London from 1936 to 1938
Exhibitions: Egan Gallery, New York (1950); Venice Biennales (1956)(1960); São Paulo Bienal (1957)
Awards:
Major Works: "Mahoning"
Franz Kline Biography: He started painting landscapes and cityscapes of the coal-mining area where he was raised in Pennsylvania. In 1939 he relocated permanently to New York. He met Willem De Koonig and Jackson Pollock. He developed his abstract style in the late 1940s.
Died: 1974