Large black brushstrokes sweep across aged beige paper with blue smears and a vertical drip.

Drawings

Composition

1955

Medium
Brush and ink, oil, and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 1/16 in. (26.4 × 33.2 cm) Mount (board): 10 3/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 in. (26.4 × 33.3 × 2.5 cm)
Accession number
77.35
Acquired
1977
Credit line
Gift of Frances and Sydney Lewis
Reproduction credit
© The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Franz Kline, Composition, 1955. Brush and ink, oil, and graphite pencil on paper, sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 1/16 in. (26.4 × 33.2 cm) Mount (board): 10 3/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 in. (26.4 × 33.3 × 2.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Frances and Sydney Lewis 77.35. © The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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