Apache Dancer (Bleecker Street Tavern Mural), 1940

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas board

Dimensions

overall: 116.84 × 116.84 cm (46 × 46 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection. Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2014.145.1

Artists / Makers

Franz Kline (artist) American, 1910 - 1962

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Inscription

lower left: KLINE '40; lower right: SWISE; across top reverse, the artist's initials in monograph within a circle: BAR ROOM PAINTING / 1940 / FK

Provenance

Commissioned 1940 by the owner of the Bleeker Street Tavern, New York;[1] removed from the tavern by 1961;[2] (The Contemporaries, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner [1903-1990], New York; by inheritance to his daughter, Dian Woodner, New York; gift 2014 to NGA.

[1] The painting was one of ten painted by the artist for the walls of the tavern. Four are in the NGA collection: 2014.145.1-4.

[2] The painting was shown with seven of the eight surviving murals at The Collector's Gallery in New York in February 1961.

Associated Names

Woodner, Dian, Ms.

Exhibition History

1961: Franz Kline: Bar Room Paintings: 1940, The Collector's Gallery, New York, 1961, no. 1.

Bibliography

2005: Joselow, Evie T. "The Early Work of Franz Kline: The Bleeker Street Tavern Murals, 1940." PART 9 (Spring/Summer 2004; on-line Journal of the Graduate Center, CUNY, Ph.D. Program in Art History).