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Willem de Kooning
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Fan account of Willem de Kooning, a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist.
1904-1997
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Asheville https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/asheville
Asheville
February 15, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Excavation https://www.artic.edu/artworks/76244/
Willem de Kooning was a central figure in Abstract Expressionism, an art movement that espoused the painterly actions of the artist as a sign of his or her emotions. De Kooning completed Excavation in June 1950, just in time for it to be exhibited in the twenty-fifth Venice Biennale. His largest painting up to that date, the work exemplifies the Dutch-born innovator’s style, with its expressive brushwork and distinctive organization of space into sliding planes with open contours. According to the artist, the point of departure for the painting was an image of women working in a rice field in Bitter Rice, a 1949 Neorealist film by Italian director Giuseppe de Santis. The mobile structure of hooked calligraphic lines defines anatomical parts—bird and fish shapes, human noses, eyes, teeth, necks, and jaws—that seem to dance across the painted surface, revealing the particular tension between abstraction and figuration that is inherent in de Kooning’s work. The original white pigment has yellowed over the years, diluting somewhat the flashes of red, blue, yellow, and pink that punctuate the composition. Aptly titled, the painting reflects de Kooning’s technically masterful painting process: an intensive building up of the surface and scraping down of its paint layers, often for months, until the desired effect was achieved. Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; restricted gifts of Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. Noah Goldowsky
February 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Abstraction https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/abstraction-1950
Abstraction
February 14, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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The glazier https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/the-glazier
The glazier
February 14, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/125398
Gift of the artist
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/108227
Gift of the artist
February 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Park Rosenberg https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/park-rosenberg
Park Rosenberg
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/160627
Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs
February 12, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Devil at the Keyboard https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/devil-at-the-keyboard
Devil at the Keyboard
February 12, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Gotham News https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/gotham-news
Gotham News
February 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/125410
Gift of the artist
February 11, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/125399
Gift of the artist
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/125406
Gift of the artist
February 11, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/125396
Gift of the artist
February 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Women Singing II https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/women-singing-ii
Women Singing II
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/untitled-2
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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Untitled https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/93622
February 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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Untitled (The Cow Jumps Over the Moon) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/318663
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, Class of 1907, by exchange © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
February 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/160631
Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Composition https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/composition
Composition
February 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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The Visit http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kooning-the-visit-t01108
Purchased 1969
February 8, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Untitled V https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/untitled-v-1983
Untitled V
February 8, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Woman in Amagansett http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72436
Gift of Lee V. Eastman and John L. Eastman
February 7, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Special Delivery https://www.wikiart.org/en/willem-de-kooning/special-delivery
Special Delivery
February 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/160644
Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Rudi Fuchs
February 7, 2026 at 10:38 AM