Jalapa 16, Homage to Franz Kline

Aaron Siskind

1903–1991

Jalapa 16, Homage to Franz Kline, 1974

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 35.9 x 36 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 14 1/8 x 14 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of Robert Drapkin and Chitranee Drapkin

Accession number: 1987.0350

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Exhibition Label:
"Art for Kansas: Building the Collection, 1988-1998 (Recent Acquisitions)," Nov-1998, John Pultz and Susan Earle
Jalapa 16 (Homage to Franz Kline) is one of over two hundred photographs by Aaron Siskind given to the Museum by three of Siskind's friends, Richard and Chitranee Drapkin and Lee Arnold. Their generous gift makes the Spencer's collection of Siskind photographs one of its largest holdings of work by a single photographer and a comprehensive representation of his careeer, from his early documentary works to his later abstractions, such as this one.
This photograph and its title show Siskind's connection to the Abstract Expressionist artists of the 1940s. These artists, including Siskind's friend Franz Kline, used abstract forms to convey emotions. In works such as Jalapa 16 (Homage to Franz Kline), Siskind continued to explore the expressive potential of objects through close views and cropping techniques that he had begun thirty years earlier.