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Tony Vaccaro / akg-images. In 1926, Willem de Kooning, a penniless, 22-year-old commercial artist from the Netherlands, stowed away on a freighter bound for America. He had no papers and spoke no ...
Jan 24, 2019 · By Annikka Olsen. 1. Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Willem de Kooning left school to begin working when he was only 12 years old, taking an apprenticeship at a design and decoration firm. 2. De Kooning immigrated to America illegally, as a secret stowaway on a ship in 1926. 3.
Artist: Willem de Kooning (American (born The Netherlands), Rotterdam 1904–1997 East Hampton, New York) Date: 1949. Medium: Oil, enamel, and newspaper transfer on canvas. Dimensions: 61 7/8 × 81 in. (157.2 × 205.7 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, in ...
Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52. “Flesh is the reason oil paint was invented,” de Kooning once remarked, and although he painted many abstractions he continually returned to the figure. Woman I took him an unusually long time to complete: he made numerous preliminary studies, then repainted the canvas repeatedly, eventually arriving ...
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, (1/22/1997 to 4/29/1997), catalogue. de Kooning: A Retrospective. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, (9/18/2011 to 1/9/2012), catalogue. The Foundation fosters the study and appreciation of Willem de Kooning's life and work through research, exhibitions, and educational programs.
Willem de Kooning, who immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands in 1926, was one of the key artists involved in the development of American Abstract Expressionism as it evolved in New York in the 1940s and 1950s.
Willem de Kooning and Thomas Hess in de Kooning's Broadway studio, c. 1959, with Spike's Folly, 1959 Photograph by Walter Silver Walter Silver/©Photography Collection, The New York Public Library Willem de Kooning in his Broadway studio, 1961, with B lack and White Study , c. 1958, Untitled (Torso) , c. 1954, and other works
