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He spent summers from 1956 to 1962 painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and died in 1962 in New York City of a rheumatic heart disease, ten days before his 52nd birthday.

He later taught at a number of institutions including Black Mountain College in North Carolina and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. It was during this time in New York that Kline developed his artistic techniques and gained recognition as a significant artist. He then moved to New York City in 1939 and worked for a scenic designer. Upon his return to the country, Kline worked as a designer for a department store in New York state. She returned to the United States with Kline in 1938. During this time, he met his future wife, Elizabeth V. After graduation from high school, Kline studied art at Boston University from 1931 to 1935, then spent a year in England attending the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. His mother later remarried and sent him to Girard College, an academy in Philadelphia for fatherless boys. During his youth he moved to Lehighton, Pennsylvania and graduated from Lehighton High School. When he was seven years old, Kline's father committed suicide. Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre, a small coal-mining community in Eastern Pennsylvania. Although he explored the same innovations to painting as the other artists in this group, Kline's work is distinct in itself and has been revered since the 1950s. Kline, along with other action painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Lee Krasner, as well as local poets, dancers, and musicians came to be known as the informal group, the New York School. He is associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement of the 1940s and 1950s. Franz Kline (– May 13, 1962) was an American painter.