Circus Rider (Bleecker Street Tavern Mural)
1940
Artist, American, 1910 - 1962

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas board
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 114.3 × 114.3 cm (45 × 45 in.)
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Accession
2014.145.3
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1961
Franz Kline: Bar Room Paintings: 1940, The Collector's Gallery, New York, 1961, no. 7, as Horseback Riders.
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; across top reverse, the artist's initials in monograph within a circle: BAR ROOM PAINTING / 1940 / FK
Wikidata ID
Q46635313