Abstract expressionism | Black & White Paintings by Franz Kline, 1950s

Franz Kline, Mahoning, 1956

Franz Kline, Vawdavitch, 1955

Franz Kline, Untitled, 1959

Franz Kline, Painting Number 2, 1954

Franz Kline, No. 3, 1948

Franz Kline, White Forms, 1955

Franz Kline, Untitled, 1950

Franz Kline (1910 –1962) was an American painter. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, John Ferren, and Lee Krasner, as well as local poets, dancers, and musicians came to be known as the informal group, the New York School.