The painter Franz Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1910, and he crafted a more complicated body of work than practically any other artist from Luzerne County. For decades, admirers have circled his ...

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It seems strange to say, but to understand the work of one of the most important Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century, a revolutionary artist recognized worldwide, it helps to be born in ...