Portrait of Female in Profile
1945
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pen and blue ink over oil paint on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet (irreg.): 13 × 9 cm (5 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Rufus Zogbaum and Reina Schratter
Accession Number
2022.145.12
About the Artist
Franz Kline
Franz Kline (1910–1962) was born on May 23 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a gritty coal-mining town in the heart of the state's industrial region. His early life was marked by tragedy: at age seven, his father, a saloon keeper, died by suicide, prompting his mother to remarry and enroll him in Girard College, a Philadelphia academy for fatherless boys. Kline later attended Lehighton High School, w...