4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.

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4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2023.

Zinc Yellow

Artist Franz Kline (American, 1910 - 1962)

Date1959

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 93 1/4 x 79 1/2 in. (236.9 x 201.9 cm)

ClassificationsModern art

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.666

Terms

Color
Abstract
Black
White
Yellow
Abstract Expressionist
Provincetown, Massachusetts

Collections

Modern and Contemporary

On View

On view

DescriptionThis oil on canvas painting is composed of black paint strokes, forming a triangular wedge on the lower right side. The left side is mostly vertical strokes of yellow, forming a rectangular shape. This is an oil on canvas painting. It is vertically orientated with the right two-thirds painted in broad strokes of a yellowish-green, "zinc" yellow, nearly forming a (slanted) rectangle. The bottom right corner has a small stroke of black. On the bottom left are strokes of black paint, some wide, some narrow. On the top left there is a very pale blue vertical dash of paint.

Label TextFranz Kline American, 1910–1962 Zinc Yellow, 1959 Oil on canvas Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.666