Featuring fifteen paintings from 1950 to 1960, along with a selection of works on paper, Franz Kline at Mnuchin Gallery offers a focused reappraisal of Kline’s oeuvre, situating his innovations within their midcentury context while engaging with the evolving discourse of contemporary abstraction.

With major loans from The Museum of Modern Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Glenstone Museum, as well as from prominent private collections—the presentation highlights the artist’s conceptual depth and formal power, reaffirming his position as a pivotal figure within Abstract Expressionism and a resonant force for contemporary painters.

While this marks the gallery’s third exhibition devoted to Kline, it is the first to be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, featuring texts by Carter Ratcliff and Robert Mattison. Ratcliff, a leading voice in American art criticism for over five decades, and Mattison, the foremost authority on Kline’s work and author of his catalogue raisonné, together bring depth and clarity to this renewed investigation of the artist’s singular vision.