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Fred R. Kline
Contact: POB 8114 * Santa Fe, NM,
87504
FRK@KlineGallery.com *
505-9881103
Revised August 2006
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Art Business
Co-Director with Jann Kline, his wife of over 20 years, of Fred
R. Kline Gallery & Kline Art Research Associates, established
1979-80 in Santa Fe [see www.klinegallery.com]. For
the last decade the gallery and art research library were open to
the public on West San Francisco Street near the Plaza in downtown
Santa Fe. As of June 1, 2006, the Klines see clients
by appointment only at 7th Heaven Ranch in the Pecos River Valley,
a short scenic drive from Santa Fe.
The gallery buys, sells, and exhibits important fine art from
the 16th to 20th centuries, and over the years has held many exhibitions
of contemporary artists. The mission of the research arm, and
Fred Kline’s specialty, is the discovery and development of
lost or unnoticed art—seeking to give a name to art without
a name and to add works of quality to the archives of art history.
[see www.klineartresearch.com ].
Fred R. Kline Gallery has placed many rare and beautiful works
worldwide. The gallery concentrates on paintings, drawings,
and sculpture in the fields of 16th -18th century Old Masters, 19th & early
20th century American and European art, and 16-20th century Spanish Colonial
and Mexican works of art. Museums, public institutions, and
corporations which have acquired works of art from Fred R. Kline
Gallery include: J. Paul Getty Museum; Pierpont Morgan Library; Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Clark Art Institute; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
Kansas City Art Institute; Eiteljorg Museum; Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art and Design; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Snite Museum, University
of Notre Dame; El Paso Museum of Art; Southwest Museum of Art; Museum
of Spanish Colonial Art; Knights of Columbus Museum; Leeds Museum;
Torch Energy Advisors; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Museum of Fine
Arts, Santa Fe; Harwood Museum, Taos; Davis Museum, Wellesley College;
Gulf Canada; Houston Oil Producing Enterprises; Roswell Museum; Santa
Fe Art Institute; Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Many
noted private collections are also numbered among the clients of
Fred R. Kline Gallery.
Santa Fe Gallery Association (Founding Member 1980).
George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonne Supplement
Of Paintings and Drawings
Acting Editor since 2005 of the George Caleb Bingham Catalogue
Raisonne Supplement of Paintings and Drawings.[www.GeorgeCalebBingham.org ],
building upon and continuing the work of the great Bingham scholar
E. Maurice Bloch (1916-1989) and his catalogues raisonnes of Bingham’s
paintings and drawings. To date (August 2006), three important
paintings by Bingham have been added to the body of Bloch’s
authenticated works.
Established and underwritten by Kline Art Research Associates,
this project is the first online catalogue raisonne of an American
or European artist and the first catalogue raisonne to offer open
online access to its ongoing research.
Academic Studies, Teaching, Academia
Studies
B.A. (English) & M.F.A (Creative Writing), San Francisco
State University, 1967-1968.
Courses of study in Philosophy & Humanities: University of Texas/
Austin, Trinity University/San Antonio, University of the Americas/Mexico
City, University of California/Berkeley.
Teaching & Academia
Public School: Bryant Middle School, Dos Palos, CA, 8th Grade English
teacher, 1968-69.
College: Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, English
and Creative Writing Instructor, 1969-72.
University: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Special Assistant to
President Frank Rhodes/Associate Director of University Relations/English
Instructor/ Contributing Writer Cornell Alumni Magazine, 1979-80.
Board of Visitors, College of Santa Fe (2002-)
Some Publications & Works in Progress
Four books of poems—49 Poems (Austin, 1964), I,
Dodo(San Francisco, 1968), Crazy Love(Columbus, 1970), Birthsongs (Washington,
1972). Notable recognition from Conrad Aiken, Norman O. Brown,
Peter Matthiessen, Josephine Jacobson, and others.
National Geographic Magazine, Editorial Staff Writer, Washington,
DC, 1972-77. National Geographic Magazine articles
include “Baltimore” (Feb.1975), “Library of Congress ”(Nov.1975), “San
Antonio”(Apr.1976). Traveled arctic regions Alaska and
Baffin Island on assignments. Co-authored book, Alaska,
High Roads to Adventure ( 1976, National Geographic Books). Explored
areas of Baffin Island including: Auyuittuq National Park (northernmost
National Park in North America), Penny Icecap, Cumberland Sound, and
mounted 1976 Pagnirtung Pass Expedition from Broughton Island on Davis
Strait to Pangnirtung on Cumberland Sound (“Across The High Arctic ”, Apr. 22, 1979, The Washington Post Magazine)
In Progress: “Art Explorer: A Search for Lost Art in America” (a
memoir). Note: Some of Kline’s art discoveries
were described in his essay: “You Never Know:
An Ongoing Search for Lost Art in America” (ART & ANTIQUES,
Feb.1989). In July 1989, an article in ESQUIRE magazine featured
Kline’s art investment activities. An April 2, 2002 New
York Times feature “An Art Explorer Finds the Real Creators
of Works” further documented some of Kline’s art
research activities.
Art Awards
Poems: Recorded selection of poems at Library of Congress in 1975
at the invitation of U. S. Poet Laureate Josephine Jacobson.
Sculpture: Public sculpture site Temple of the Hills (Santa
Fe, NM) selected for recognition and publication in annual national
survey of public sculpture in 1995 ART IN AMERICA ANNUAL.
Sculpture: Temple of the Hills chosen for inclusion in the
Smithsonian United States Outdoor Sculpture Survey, 1997.
Art History: Consultants in Historic Texas Paintings (Fred & Jann
Kline) by invitation of the Curator of the Texas State Capitol, Austin,
mid-1980s. Organized and co-curated several notable loan exhibitions
of 19th & early 20th century Texas paintings, stimulating collecting
of early Texas art and development of Texas art history. Fred Kline also wrote a widely
reprinted and influential essay, “Collecting Artists of Texas—A
Surprising State of the Arts” (first published in Antiques West,
1993).
Early Geography
Born in Hagerstown, Maryland, early childhood during WWII
in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Former
hometown: San Antonio, Texas, Thomas Jefferson High School (class
of ’57)
Family
Fred & Jann Kline have five children and seven grandchildren, and always a few great dogs.
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