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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 70 |
| Spain | 11 |
| Germany | 7 |
| Italy | 4 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Richard Gray Gallery - New York, USA |
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Biography: 
23.5.1910 Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA (US)
Kline´s facility for drawing in ink is well-known, exemplified by his precocious skill as the school cartoonist at Lehighton High School in Pennsylvania.
Later, while studying in London at Heatherly¹s School of Fine Art, prior to World War II, Kline was definitively inspired by the drawing techniques of Rembrandt and of Charles Keene, an English caricaturist of the 19th Century. Both artists used pen and ink with great rapidity and an economy of line easily recognized in Kline´s mature drawing. He also acknowledged a youthful admiration for Hokusai which led to a lifelong interest in the concept of oriental space.
In 1943, Kline met the painter Conrad Marca-Relli, his next door neighbor on West 4th Street, who introduced him to Willem de Kooning. Thus began a sequence of influential friendships cemented by studio visits and lively companionship in the Cedar Bar. Feverish discussions on art at the 8th Street Club were strongly influenced by a growing curiosity in Zen philosophy, which affected many of the New York artists. Kline´s profound interest in music and ballet supported his intuitive understanding of abstract form, and by 1949 the realistic subject matter of his formative years had been transformed into abstraction. Pen and pencil were replaced by the brush which emphasized the rich expressive potential of his line, while the increasingly calligraphic minimalism of his compositions created a sense of scale which begged to be enlarged. In this way many celebrated works of the Fifties were painted from drawings, done in brush and ink on paper or telephone book paper.
13.5.1962 Died in New York City, NY (US)
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Public exhibitions 102
until 22.11.
Solo shows 8
2008
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| Franz Kline - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Franz Kline 1910-1962 - Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin |
2003
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| FRANZ KLINE: Paintings from a Private American Collection - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Franz Kline - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Franz Kline - Ink Drawings - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Franz Kline: arte y estructura de la identidad - Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona |
1986
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| The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
1964
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| Franz Kline - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 93
2009
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| 1945-1949 Repartir à zéro, comme si la peinture n’avait jamais existé - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA |
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| Tiempo como materia. Colección MACBA. Nuevas incorporaciones - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Synchronies: Undercurrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2008
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| Watercolor-Bodycolor - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Black - G Fine Art, Washington, DC |
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| Abstract Expressionism - A World Elsewhere - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Summer Selection - Edward Tyler Nahem, New York City, NY |
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| Action Painting - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
2007
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| Taste of Modern - Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
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| Drawings - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawings, Watercolors and Gouaches: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Freud - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Museu da Solidariedade - Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba |
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| Gallery Selection- Autumn Group Show - Edward Tyler Nahem, New York City, NY |
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| The Passionate Gesture - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| When Art Worlds Collide - The 60's - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Modern(ist) Love - The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism - Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Speed 2 - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
2006
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| Afro & incotri e Confronti italia America - Gallerie d´Arte Moderna di Udine GAMUD, Udine |
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| Shelter - Kunst für zwangsprostituierte Frauen - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Black, Black & White, White - Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York City, NY |
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| Coming of Age - American Art, 1850s to 1950s - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
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| Plane/Figure - Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Modern and Contemporary Masters - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| "New York School" - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Starting at Zero - Black Mountain College 1933-57 - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Line and Surface - Works on Paper - Peter Blum Gallery - Soho, New York City, NY |
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| Contemporary and Modern Paintings - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Ecole de New York - Expressionnisme Abstrait - oeuvres sur papier - MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice |
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| “Vedo Blu” - Galleria Edieuropa, Rome |
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| Expresionismo Abstracto - Obra sobre papel - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao |
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| American and European Selections - Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Obras Maestras del Siglo XX en las Colecciones del IVAM - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| The Shape of Time - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Into The Unknown - Abstraction From The Collection - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Surfing the Century: Twentieth-Century Art - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts - Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street, London (England) |
2004
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| From Pollock to Marden:Post-War Works on Paper from the Collection of Susan and - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of Art - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Portraits - Esso Gallery and Books, New York City, NY |
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| A Spirited Vision: Highlights of the Bequest of Caroline Wiess Law - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Picasso to Thiebaud - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2003
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| Staff Selections - Permanent Collection - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Black White - Danese, New York City, NY |
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| Aaron Siskind and others - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings & Sculp - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| A Way with Words - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Masterworks on Paper from the Edward R. Broida Collection - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Not Exactly Photographs - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Abstract Expressionism - Art Movement in the 20th Century - Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran |
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| Conversations - A Collection in Dialogue - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2002
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| Black Mountain College: Una aventura americana - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid |
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| An American Legacy, A Gift to New York - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| All American, Part II - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| The Physical World - An Exhibition Of Painting And Sculpture - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
2001
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| All American - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Da Kandisky a Pollock - Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano |
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| Cold War Modern: The Domesticated Avant–garde - Davis Museum and Cultural Center - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
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| Modernism & Abstraction - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
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| The Stamp of Impulse - Abstract Expressionist Prints - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Foundations - Building the Addison's Collection - Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
2000
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| American Abstract Expressionism - American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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| Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Expresionismo Abstracto - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
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| Highlights of Late 20th-Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
1999
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| Panza - The Legacy of a Collector - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Drawn from Artists' Collections - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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| Fruits & Flowers, Skies & Pies - Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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| The New York School - Gagosian Gallery - Madison Avenue, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Hans Hofmann and the New York School - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Group Exhibition - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1993
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| The Usual Suspects - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1988
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| Abstract Work From The 1950s - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1977
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| Arte USA - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Arte USA - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1972
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| Scuola di New York - Galleria Morone, Milan |
1964
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| Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Mr. And Mrs. Ted Weiner - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
1959
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| documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| The Romantic Agony: From Goya to de Kooning - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1956
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| Large Scale Paintings II - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 12 |
USA
| | Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | L&M Arts, New York City, NY
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| | Elrick-Manley Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Edward Tyler Nahem, New York City, NY
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| | Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Pascal de Sarthe Fine Art, Paradise Valley, AZ
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| | Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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Public collections 37
Argentina
| | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - MNBA, Buenos Aires
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Canada
| | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
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Germany
| | K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - am Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf
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| | Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
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| | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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Iran
| | Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | AMoA - Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
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| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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| | The Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, Davis, CA
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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| | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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Catalogs
| | Yearbook 2000/2001- American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich |
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