Apache Dancer (Bleecker Street Tavern Mural)

1940

Franz Kline

Artist, American, 1910 - 1962

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

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

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).

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q46635257

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