Word: klines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern Blossom. By all the logic of art movements, the dinner should have been a wake. Abstract expressionism has been declared dead; pop and op are up. Yet here was an artist who had painted along with Pollock, Kline, Gottlieb and DeKooning, who had been among the most articulate defenders of the faith and who was now at last having his big moment. On hand for the occasion were such oldtimers as Mark Rothko and Philip Guston to give Motherwell, now 50, a bear hug for his success...
...snowshoes went for $11, the lacrosse equipment for $3, the Jackson Pollock for $12,000, and the Franz Kline for $5,000. In all, it was a fairly good auction out at the Slezak place in Larchmont, N.Y., until the men who arranged to buy the Pollock and the Kline discovered that the paintings would have made better snowshoes. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Connecticut Art Dealer Richard A. Rainsford and a Chicago accomplice on 26 charges of fraud for inventing elaborate pedigrees for the forged paintings, then sneaking them in to be sold with some of Walter...
...support of farm programs). By the late 1930s, its ardor for the New Deal had cooled, and with the start of World War II the Farm Bureau's break with the Roosevelt Administration was com plete. In 1947, the election of Iowa Corn and Hog Farmer Allen Kline as president signaled the organization's move to the right. "Kline brought us to look at the economic issues in agriculture," Shuman explains. "His administration said, 'We want less government, not more.' It was a simple change, but pretty fundamental. I can't claim credit for that...
Riling the Folks. Shuman likes to characterize his administration as "plodding, hardworking, do-what-you-have-to -do -to -meet -the - problems-as -they-come." Said he: "Kline inspired people more than I can. He had the ability to excite people." Some Shuman watchers would testify that Charlie can get people excited-and riled-pretty easily himself. Last year, in Philadelphia, Shuman got plenty of mileage out of comparing the Government support programs to narcotics...
...FRED KLINE San Francisco...