Abstract black shapes occupy the left side while a handwritten poem appears on the right.

Prints

Poem

1960

Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (42.9 × 50.5 cm) Plate: 8 3/8 × 14 1/2 in. (21.3 × 36.8 cm)
Accession number
96.198.9
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee
Reproduction credit
© The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Edition
39/50 | 12 APs
Publication
Printed by Andersen-Lamb Photogravure Corporation; published by Morris Gallery
Department
collection

About this work

Franz Kline, Poem, 1960. Etching, sheet: 16 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (42.9 × 50.5 cm) Plate: 8 3/8 × 14 1/2 in. (21.3 × 36.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 96.198.9. © The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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