![]() In a later 1949 work, "Dancer at Islip," he portrayed a dancer confined behind bars. During this time, inspired by a photograph depicting the famous dancer Vaslav Nijinsky as the character of tragic puppet Petrouchka, Kline painted a series of dancers and clowns. She first entered the hospital for a period of six months in 1946, and then in 1948, she returned to the hospital for a period of 12 years. His wife also faced serious health issues, battling with depression and schizophrenia. Between 19, the Kline's moved at least 14 times. Kline still faced many financial troubles and he was evicted from residencies three times. He continued to work however, determined to establish his reputation as an artist, and first presented his work at the 1939 Washington Square Outdoor Show. To cover living expenses, Kline briefly worked as a window display designer for women's fashion, sold illustrations to magazines, and painted murals for bars. While in Buffalo, Kline struggled as an artist, gaining only modest acknowledgment with his small scale figurative art. Parsons followed him to America and they were married that same year. In 1938, Kline moved back to the States and situated himself in Buffalo, New York. While in London he met his wife a former British ballerina who was working as an artist's model at Heatherley, Elizabeth Vincent Parsons. From 1937 to 1938, Kline studied art at Heatherley's School of Fine Art in England. After, Kline spent a brief period of time in New York studying at the Arts Students League, an institution for artists founded by artists. Due to an accident at football practice, Kline was immobilized for a period of time, during which he became increasingly interested in drawing.įrom 1931 to 1935, Kline studied art at Boston University. There he became President of the Art Club his sophomore year, the cartoonist for the school newspaper, and Captain of the Varsity football team in 1929. Kline's mother eventually withdrew him from Girard and he was then enrolled in Lehighton High School. His mother remarried only a few years later and in 1919, at the age of 10, Kline was sent to Girard College in Philadelphia, an institution for "fatherless boys." Kline later referred to the institution as an "orphanage," the extended period Kline stayed at Girard, totaling eleven years, indicates that Kline may have encountered traumatic issues. In 1917, when Kline was seven years old, his father, a saloonkeeper, committed suicide. The second of four children, Kline was named after the Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, by his father who descended from Hamburg, Germany. His father, Anthony Kline, owned a local saloon and his mother, Anne Kline, was an immigrant from Cornwall, England. Born on in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Franz Josef Kline grew up, according to his mother, drawing on sidewalks with the juice from the stems of rhubarb.
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