Orange Outline

Artist Franz Kline American, 1910–1962

Date1955

MediumOil on paperboard mounted on canvas

Dimensions38 x 40 in. (96.5 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 45 1/8 x 47 3/8 in. (114.6 x 120.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Levin

Object numberGL.58.8.8

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated New York, 1955; collection of the artist; [Sidney Janis Gallery, New York] [1]; sold to NCMA, 1958.

[1] Janis inv. no. SJG#5198
Published References"Registrar's Report of New Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 2, no. 1 (Summer 1958), listed (as on loan) 43.

Weller Embler, "Symbols in Literature and Art." College Art Journal 16 (Fall 1956), 47-58, illus. (b-w) 57.

"Acquisitions,"North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4(Fall 1963), listed 13, illus. (b-w) 14 (fig. 3).

Black Mountain College (exhibition catalogue) (Johnson City, TN: East Tennessee University, Carroll Reece Museum, 1966), cat. no. 20

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 40, illus. (color).

American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 36, illus. (color) 21 and cover.

Charles W. Stanford, Jr. Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 38, illus. (color)

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 140, illus. (color) 141.

A Southern Sampler: American Paintings in Southern Museums (exhibition catalogue) (Chattanooga, TN: Hunter Museum of Art, 1975), no. 54, illus. (b-w).

Franz Kline: The Color Abstractions (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: The Phillips Collection, 1979), cat. no. 19, illus. (color) 69.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 275.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 271.

John W. Coffey, Entry for Orange Outline, In North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 227, illus. (color).

M. Therese Southgate, M.D., "The Cover," JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 21 (June 5, 2002), discussed 2753, illus. (color) 2753, 2745, and cover.

John W. Coffey, entry for Orange Outline, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 476, illus. (color) 477.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Panel's Choice," March 31- April 24, 1957, previously traveled to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, no. 9 (lent by Sidney Janis Gallery).

Washington, DC, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, "Franz Kline Memorial Exhibition," October 30-December 27, 1962; Waltham, MA, Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, January 21-March 10, 1963, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, April 14-May 20, 1963,no. 59, illus. (b-w).

New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, "International Circulating Exhibition: Franz Kline," September 1963-September 1964, traveling to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, September 20-October 20, 1963 (cat. no. 28); Torino, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, November 5-December 1, 1963 (cat. no. 28, illus b-w); Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, December 1963-January 1964 (cat. no. 28); Basel, Kunsthalle, January 31-March 1, 1964 (cat. no. 28); Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, March 16-April 12, 1964 (cat. no. 28); London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May-June 1964 (cat. no. 27); and Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, July-September 1964 (cat. no. 26).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "American Paintings since 1900 from the Permanent Collection," April 1-23, 1967, no. 36, illus. (color) 21 and cover.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 140, illus. (color) 141.

Chattanooga, TN, Hunter Museum of Art, "A Southern Sampler: American Paintings in Southern Museums," September 21-October 31, 1975, no. 54, illus. (b-w).

Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, "Opening Exhibition," February 2-March 2, 1977.

Rocky Mount, NC, Rocky Mount Arts and Crafts Center, "Art and Education at Black Mountain College, 1933-1956," January 15-February 28, 1978, no. 28.

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "Black Mountain College Retrospective," March 14-May 14, 1978.

Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, "Franz Kline: The Color Abstractions," February 17-April 8, 1979; Houston, TX, The Institute for the Arts, Rice University, May 4-July 1, 1979; Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 17-September 9, 1979; Seattle, WA, Seattle Art Museum, September 27-November 25, 1979, no. 19, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–April 10, 2023. Object Rights Statement

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