 Artist's arttributes:
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Painting |
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Abstract Expressionism, Informel |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 129 |
| Germany | 12 |
| Spain | 11 |
| United Kingdom | 8 |
| Italy | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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Margo Leavin Gallery, USA |
6 |
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MOCA Grand Avenue, USA |
5 |
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Richard Gray Gallery - New York, USA |
4 |
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Neue Nationalgalerie, Germany |
4 |
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Woodward Gallery, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
23.5.1910 Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA (US)
13.5.1962 Died in New York City, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 184
until 16.6.
until 24.5.
Solo shows 23
2012
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| Franz Kline: Coal and Steel - Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA |
2009
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| Front Room: Franz Kline Brushstrokes - The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
2008
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| Franz Kline - Paul Thiebaud Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Suitcase Paintings - Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL |
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| Franz Kline Studies - Paul Thiebaud Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Franz Kline - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Franz Kline 1910-1962 - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
2003
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| Franz Kline: Paintings from a Private American Collection - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Franz Kline - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Franz Kline - Ink Drawings - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Franz Kline - black & white, 1950-1961 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
1994
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| Franz Kline - black & white, 1950-1961 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Franz Kline - black & white, 1950-1961 - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| Franz Kline: arte y estructura de la identidad - Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona |
1986
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| The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
1969
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| Franz Kline, 1910 - 1962 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1968
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| Franz Kline, 1910 - 1962 - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Franz Kline, 1910 - 1962 - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1964
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| Franz Kline - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
1963
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| Franz Kline - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| Franz Kline Memorial Exhibition - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
1962
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| Franz Kline - Memorial Exhibition - - Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC (closed, 1968) |
1961
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| Franz Kline - Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
Group shows 159
2012
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| American Dream - Agnellini Arte Moderna, Brescia |
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| Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy - Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| Primer Acto - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| Abstract Expressionism - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Masterworks of European and American Art for the 21st Century - Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY |
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| Micro Mania - Gagosian Gallery, Paris |
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| 21 Etchings and Poems - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Curator's Choice: People, Places, and Things - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
2011
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| Symbiosis: Conversations Between East And West - Hackett I Mill, San Francisco, CA |
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| Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Abstract Expressionist New York - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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| Parcours d'un galeriste. François Ditesheim - Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel |
2010
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| Abstract Expressionist New York - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Masters of the Gesture - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| Black & White - Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH |
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| Group Show Summer 2010 - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| LE GRAND GESTE! - Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964 - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| Modern Times - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (England) |
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| Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Modern Times: responding to chaos - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Big Paper Winter - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Illustre Gäste - Amerikanische Kunst 1950 bis 1970 aus der Sammlung des Museum Folkwang im Josef Albers Museum - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop |
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| The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA |
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| Tiempo como materia. Colección MACBA. Nuevas incorporaciones - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Gallery Selections - Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Synchronies: Undercurrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction - - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2009) |
2008
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| Watercolor-Bodycolor - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| 1945-1949 Repartir à zéro, comme si la peinture n’avait jamais existé - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Black - G Fine Art, Washington, DC |
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| Abstract Expressionism - A World Elsewhere - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York City, NY |
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| COMING OF AGE. Arte americana dal 1850 al 1950 - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice |
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| Raymond Hendler and artists from his ‘avant garde’ Circle - Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Summer Selection - Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Medieval to Modern - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Die Hände der Kunst - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| "How Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center" - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| Action Painting - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
2007
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| Taste of Modern - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
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| Drawings - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawings, Watercolors and Gouaches: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Freud - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Museu da Solidariedade - Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba |
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| Gallery Selection- Autumn Group Show - Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Passionate Gesture - - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2009) |
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| When Art Worlds Collide - The 60 - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Modern(ist) Love - The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism - Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Speed 2 - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
2006
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| Afro & incotri e Confronti italia America - - Gallerie d´Arte Moderna di Udine - GAMUD, Udine (closed, 2011) |
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| Shelter - Kunst für zwangsprostituierte Frauen - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Black, Black & White, White - Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| Coming of Age - American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Plane/Figure - Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Modern and Contemporary Masters - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| "New York School" - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Spring Paper 8 - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Starting at Zero - Black Mountain College 1933-57 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Line and Surface - Works on Paper - Peter Blum Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Contemporary and Modern Paintings - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Ecole de New York - Expressionnisme Abstrait - oeuvres sur papier - MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice |
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| “Vedo Blu” - Galleria Edieuropa, Rome |
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| Expresionismo Abstracto - Obra sobre papel - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao |
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| American and European Selections - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Obras Maestras del Siglo XX en las Colecciones del IVAM - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| The Shape of Time - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Into The Unknown - Abstraction From The Collection - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Surfing the Century: Twentieth-Century Art - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) |
2004
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| From Pollock to Marden:Post-War Works on Paper from the Collection of Susan and - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| Action Painting. Arte americana 1940 - 1970: dal disegno all'opera - Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena |
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| Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Portraits - Esso Gallery and Books, New York City, NY |
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| A Spirited Vision: Highlights of the Bequest of Caroline Wiess Law - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Picasso to Thiebaud - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2003
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| Staff Selections - Permanent Collection - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Black White - Danese, New York City, NY |
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| Aaron Siskind and others - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculp - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Richard Gray Gallery Forty Years - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| A Way with Words - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Masterworks on Paper from the Edward R. Broida Collection - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Not Exactly Photographs - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Abstract Expressionism - Art Movement in the 20th Century - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran |
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| Conversations - A Collection in Dialogue - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2002
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| Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| An American Legacy, A Gift to New York - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| All American, Part II - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| The Physical World - An Exhibition Of Painting And Sculpture - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY |
2001
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| All American - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Aaron Siskind And Franz Kline: Expression Through Abstraction - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Da Kandisky a Pollock - Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano |
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| Cold War Modern: The Domesticated Avant–garde - Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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| Modernism & Abstraction - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
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| The Stamp of Impulse - Abstract Expressionist Prints - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| A Room Of Their Own - From Rothko To Rauschenberg - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Foundations - Building the Addison's Collection - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2000
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| American Abstract Expressionism - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Expresionismo Abstracto - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
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| Highlights of Late 20th-Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
1999
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| Panza - The Legacy of a Collector - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| American Works on Paper, 1945-1975 - Hallie Ford Museum of Art (HFMA), Salem, OR |
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| In Memory Of My Feelings: Frank O'hara And American Art - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Drawn from Artists' Collections - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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| Fruits & Flowers, Skies & Pies - Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| The New York School - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY |
1996
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| Hans Hofmann and the New York School - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Group Exhibition - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1993
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| The Usual Suspects - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1992
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| Contemporary Art from the Marcia Simon Weisman Collection - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| News Modern and Contemporary Masters - Zeisler Collection - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1988
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| Abstract Work From The 1950s - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1984
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| Eccentric Images - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1983
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| Black and White - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1980
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| An Exhibition of Important Contemporary Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1979
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| Summer 1979: An Exhibition of Selected Acquisitions - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1978
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| Three Generations: Studies in Collage - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| American Drawing - 1927-1977 - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1977
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| Kelly, Kline, Pollock, Rinke - - Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf (closed, 2008) |
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| Fine Paintings and Drawings - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Arte USA - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Arte USA - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1976
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| Modern Masters - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| New York in Europa - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1972
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| Scuola di New York - NUOVA GALLERIA MORONE, Milan |
1971
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| Ways of Looking - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1964
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| Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Mr. And Mrs. Ted Weiner - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
1961
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| The Ben Heller Collection of Paintings of the School of New York - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| American Exhibition 64th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1960
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| The Mysterious Sign - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
1959
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| American Painting and Sculpture 63rd Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| The Romantic Agony: From Goya to de Kooning - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The New American Painting - Tate Britain, London (England) |
1958
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| The New American Painting - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| The New American Painting - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| Some Pictures from the E.J. Power Collection - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
1956
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| Large Scale Paintings II - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Twelve Americans - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1951
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| 9th Street Art Exhibition - - 9th Street Art Exhibition, New York City, NY (closed, 1951) |
| Dealer Directory 14 |
USA
| | Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Mark Borghi Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
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| | David Janis Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY
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| | Elrick-Manley Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | James Francis Trezza Fine Art , New York City, NY
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| | Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | de Sarthe Gallery, Paradise Valley, AZ
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Argentina
| | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - MNBA, Buenos Aires
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Canada
| | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
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Germany
| | K20 Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf
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| | Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
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| | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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Iran
| | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | AMoA - Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
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| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
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| | The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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| | The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, Davis, CA
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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| | Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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| | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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Catalogs
| | Yearbook 2000/2001- American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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