Willem De Kooning (1904 - 1997) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews

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Artist: Willem De Kooning (1904 - 1997)
Nationality: Dutch
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Willem de Kooning began his artistic career early apprenticing to commercial art firm in the Nethlerlands at the age of 12. He received his training from the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and moved to New York in 1925. He shared studio space with Arshille Gorky in the early 1930’s, gaining exposure to the Surrealist movement. After World War II, de Kooning gravitated toward Abstract Expressionism under the guidance of Adolph Gottlieb. After successfully leading the development of the movement with his dynamic painting, de Kooning turned toward clay sculpting late in his career.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Future
Together, more than 70 assembled works on paper show the artist's struggle to eliminate traditional barriers between drawing and painting. The exhibition highlights key pastels from 1952-1953 that were the centerpiece of de Kooning’s 1953 exhi...
Menil Collection: Willem de Kooning: In Process
Willem de Kooning: In Process, consisting of twenty paintings and eight drawings created between 1968 and 1988, was organiz...
National Gallery of Art: Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure
"The Gallery presented in 1994 a major exhibition of de Kooning's paintings. Now, we are extremely pleased to be showing his drawings," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "They reveal de Kooning grappling with issues that ...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Founded in North Carolina in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a dissident Classical academic, it attracted a star-studded cast of teachers and students who forged a dramatic shift from a Eurocentric art world to a distinctly American one. Rice invited Jo...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Lee Krasner
While Krasner has been indelibly associated with Pollock, this show places her work in a larger context of painterly influences - including Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian - and chronicles her approach to pushi...
Cleveland Museum of Art: The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints
The prints range from small drypoints to mural-sized screenprints and lithographs. Masters in New York, such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Adolph Gottlieb, are included, as well as printmakers like Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Olivei...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Action-Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976
Beginning in the 1940s, Pollock and de Kooning created paintings and sculptures that catapulted American art onto the international stage. In magazines as diverse as Partisan Review, The Nation, ARTnews and Vogue, Greenberg and Rosenberg wrote inc...
Plains Art Museum: Theodore Waddell: A Retrospective, 1960-2000
Theodore Waddell has long been recognized as one of Montana's most important contemporary artists - one who has played a significant role in the development of late modernism in Montana and the West. His intimate relationship to the land and peop...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Grey Art Gallery, New York University: Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s
The show allows viewers to see how one artist chose to portray another and to view stellar, but rarely exhibited, works by such renowned artists as Josef Albers, Willem ...
Orlando Museum of Art: Collector's Choice II: Contemporary Art from Central Florida Collections
Also represented are cutting-edge artists such as Kiki Smith, Suzanne McClelland, Jane Hammond, Brad Kahlhamer and Beth Campbell. In addition, a number of works by Dale Chihuly an...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery: Nono Reinhold: The Stairs
In 1957 the artist rented a fifth-floor room in the rue Hautefeuille in Paris where she has lived and worked for part of each year. The series of prints exhibited here reflects many years of thinking about the form (and symbolism) of the...
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Jeroen Allart: Clear, Simple and Colourful
Landscape painting tends to evoke associations with a past era but these are instantly banished by the first glimpse of Jeroen Allart’s work. His landscape paintings are invariably composed of a number of completely stylised elements – a field, th...
Diorama Gallery: Fables: Works by Anne-Lise Firth
The show is called Fables because the paintings are her own improvised stories, which cannot be put into words, but must instead be told large in oil on canvas. Anne-Lise received her BA in History of Art at the University of East Anglia and rece...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Directions: Cecily Brown
Among the works that will be on view are the never-before-exhibited "Dogday Afternoon," 1999, in which the artist's body markings are part of the composition; "Bacchanal," 2001, exemplifying Brown's recent investigations into landscape; and an ...
Museum Het Domein: Eylem Aladogan: Pharmagenic Decline, you won't suffer any harm
A student trip to Australia in 2000 is a large basis for the inspiration for this exhibition. Aladogan, born 1975, currently lives and works in Rotterdam. After her studies at the Willem de Kooning Academie of Rotterdam, she studied for a year a...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios
Rauschenberg made his Wadsworth Atheneum debut in 1964, in several guises. His legendary Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) had its first public showing with other early work in the group exhibition Black, White and Grey: Contemporary Painting and ...
Akron Art Museum: Lee Krasner
The traveling exhibition comprises sixty paintings, collages, and drawings on loan from major collections around the world. Together, these works-many of them not publicly exhibited in decades-present the complete trajectory of Krasner's work. ...
Museum Alfons Blomme: Shine : Svein Koningen and Jan Duytschaever
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Artist: Svein Koningen
Title: Marilyn 1
Year Created: 2009
Medium: Painting Acrylic
Width: 47.3 inches
Height: 47.3 inches
Depth: 2 inches
Price: US$ 6,200

Brooklyn Museum of Art: Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
These items appear, along with 250 other works in Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960. A decade in the planning, this exhibition is the first ever to present examples of all the visual arts that made use of org...
Cobden Club: Richard Stickler - A British Contemporary Abstract Artist and Musician
Digital Abstract Photography A series of Signed Limited Edition photographs is exhibited at Cobden Club London. They are the result of the study of artificial light, and the interaction with its surroundings. Based on the discovery on how ne...
Stedelijk Museum: Up to now = Tot zo ver
The presentation which is being assembled at the moment by departing director Rudi Fuchs and a number of the Museum's curators will include all of the disciplines in the collection. The emphasis lies on the postwar period, although many familiar (...
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: Former Aldrich Security Guard Makes Good - Headlines in Homecoming
Homecoming—Sarah Bostwick, Damian Loeb, and Doug Wada The Aldrich is particularly pleased to present Homecoming because it brings together The Aldrich’s dual mission of presenting outstanding new art and being a leading arts educator in the ...
Museum of Fine Art: Susan Rothenberg: Paintings from the Nineties
Normal activities on the ranch supplied Rothenberg with some of the subjects of her paintings, as in Dogs Killing Rabbit (1990–91) and the two Accident paintings, on the theme of a rider thrown from a horse. However,...
Artlink, Inc.: Workshop: Photographing Your Artwork, Phoenix, January 20, 2001
David Moore, noted art documenter will demonstrate practical issues of making the best transparencies you can make and to develop digital asset management of your art via traditional and digital photographic technologies. He will show the effe...
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts: Pierre Alechinsky
Born in 1927, Pierre Alechinsky was a founder of the European expressionist movement - CoBrA. Although the CoBrA movement officially lasted through 1948 -1951, its impact was considerable as it included many of Europe s leading painters, writers, poe...
Jan van der Donk: Hazel Larsen Archer: Trimming of this Photo is Forbidden
This show indeed documents the faces of the young Cunningham, the young Cage, de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, Dorothea Rockburne, Su san Weil, Robert Rauschenberg and Ray Johnson. On view are also portraits of Josef and Annie Albers, Charles Olson and ...
Silvermine Guild Arts Center: Spectra '04 National Photography Triennial
SUSAN SCAFATI PHOTOGRAPHY has received the Barbara Lans Memorial Award for "Descent" from The Italy Series. The exhibition was juried by Barbara Hitchcock who says of the exhibit, “Imagination found its voice in the work of a number of photograph...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Richard Avedon: Portraits
All of the photographs in the exhibition are courtesy of Richard Avedon. Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art commented: "Richard Avedon's work now takes its proper place in the larger history of art, representi...
Milwaukee Art Museum: Nothing But Nudes: Selections from the Permanent Collection
he exhibition Nothing But Nudes: Selections from the Permanent Collection reveals not only the many roles of the nude in art but also the depth of the museum's holdings. Including works from all media painting and sculpture, w...
Municipality of Tel Aviv: Ilana Raviv Receives Women of the Year Award
Read more about Ilana Raviv's exhibition at the State Russian Museum in 2007 at "Ilana Raviv: Solo Exhibition" Ilana Raviv states about her work: "Synthetic Realism expres...
Sprengel Museum: Cloudcatcher: Horst Antes and the Shift in Painting during the 1960s
Antes developed his figure in the post-war years, a period in which abstraction had been largely accepted as the international art idiom. While the figurative was being vigorously purged from the picture, Antes worked obsessively...
National Gallery of Canada: Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades
Celebrated for his lyrical and luminous Abstract Expressionist paintings, Philip Guston was one of the most important and respected members of the New York School in the forties and f...
Center for Creative Photography: Couples: Photographs by Mariana Cook
The Center is pleased to present this engaging project from Mariana Cook, who has never before exhibited in Arizona, said Nancy Lutz, Acting Director, Center for Creative Photography. This show will have enormous appeal for all generations of vi...
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale: IMPRESSIONISM TO THE PRESENT: CAMILLE PISSARRO AND HIS DESCENDANTS
The Pissarro exhibition will feature 156 works including significant pieces by Camille Pissarro, known as the Father of Impressionism, and works created by his sons, grandchildren and great-granddaughter. Museum visitors will have a rare op...
Esso Gallery: Carlo Nangeroni: Works 1944 – 2005
In the 1950s, there was a fairly intense artistic exchange between Italy and the U.S. (in particular, on the Rome-New York axis), but Nangeroni’s experience of the Italian-American connection began earlier and was more extensive than simply travel...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...

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