A Princeton University Art Museum show captures the urgent power of the iconic abstract expressionist’s 1945-50 breakthrough years ...
Willem de Kooning, considered one of the greatest artists of his time and a dominant figure in the abstract expressionist art movement, died Wednesday. He was 92. The Dutch-born painter died about ...
The show revisits the contributions of 32 visionary artists who helped expand the language of Abstract Expressionism beyond its early centers.
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It was in the Fifties that de Kooning’s commanding reputation became a public phenomenon for the first time. It ...
Workers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital were looking for room to store ventilators amid the pandemic when they found this cache. The pieces are now being appraised by art dealers. Annie Wermiel/NY ...
I got up early Saturday morning to go to MoMA to catch the members-only viewing (a perk for members that lets you see a show when there aren’t so many people around) of the Willem de Kooning ...
Elaine de Kooning, “Out” (c. 1950), oil on canvas, 18 × 24 inches (Amarillo Museum of Art, gift of Mrs. Malcolm Shelton, © Elaine de Kooning Trust) New York ...
DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...
Most people have heard of Jackson Pollock. But few are familiar with Janet Sobel, the Ukrainian-born American painter who first pioneered Pollock’s iconic drip-painting technique. The Abstract ...