{"data":{"id":"12674","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":12674,"topgoose_id":11122,"portfolio_id":1997,"tms_id":12674,"title":"Untitled (Study for Mahoning)","display_artist_text":"Franz Kline","display_date":"c. 1951","accession_number":"2000.114","dimensions":"Sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 1/8 in. (22.7 × 28.3 cm)\r\nMount (board): 12 × 14 3/4 in. (30.5 × 37.5 cm)","medium":"Opaque watercolor on paper","department":"collection","classification":"Drawings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee and Kathleen and Richard S. Fuld","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":1997,"portfolio":"Mahoning","edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eFranz Kline, \u003cem\u003eUntitled (Study for Mahoning)\u003c/em\u003e, c. 1951. Opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 1/8 in. (22.7 × 28.3 cm)\r\nMount (board): 12 × 14 3/4 in. (30.5 × 37.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee and Kathleen and Richard S. Fuld 2000.114. © The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough the sweeping, gestural strokes of Franz Kline’s signature black and white paintings appear spontaneous, many of his large-scale abstractions were carefully adapted from earlier sketches and studies, including the painting entitled \u003ci\u003eMahoning\u003c/i\u003e, in the Whitney’s collection. \u003ci\u003eMahoning\u003c/i\u003e was based on this small, preliminary drawing that the artist initially made on a page of a telephone book and later projected onto a large canvas. Fascinated by the force and drama created by enlarging the intersecting lines of the preparatory sketch, Kline noted, “there’s an excitement about the larger areas, and I think you confront yourself much more with a big canvas.” Kline particularly enjoyed drawing on the pages of telephone books, whose print pattern prevented an illusion of receding perspective; he retained this flattened picture plane when he transferred his small-scale drawings to large canvases.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Thick black brushstrokes cover a yellowed newspaper page mounted on a white mat.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:39:35.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:35.690-05:00","images":[{"id":103312,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/12674/2000_114_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"707","type":"artist"}]}}}}