Franz Kline’s “Painting No. 11,” seen here above the couch in the Lang family home in Medina, was the first piece of art purchased by Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang for their collection. (Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios)
Franz Kline's "Painting No. 11," seen here above the couch in the Lang family home in Medina, is one of 19 artworks from the Lang Collection being gifted to Seattle Art Museum. (Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios)

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Seattle Art Museum is getting a major gift of abstract expressionist and European masterworks — including those by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — from the collection once owned by the late Medina philanthropists Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang. VIEW Updated

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