06 december 2012

Franz Kline #3


"Surprisingly, there is a direct line from Charles W. Hawthorne, the painter and teacher who was largely responsible for Provincetown’s emergence as America’s first art colony in the early 1900s, to Franz Kline, one of the Abstract Expressionists who lived and worked in Provincetown in the 1950s.
It runs through Henry Hensche, who studied under Hawthorne and taught Kline, and whose presence in town first brought Kline here.
Kline bought Shadowlawn at 15 Cottage Street (it is now Kensington Gardens). He used the rear shed, 16 Mechanic Street, as his studio – as had Jackson Pollock.
In Provincetown Painters, Dorothy Gees Seckler said that after a hard day wrestling with bold black-and-white compositions, Kline would repair to the Atlantic House (#20).
After his death in 1962, the studio was briefly an art gallery run by Viriginia Zabriskie." (bron: Provincetown)

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