Monday 5 December 2022

Willem de Kooning - part 3

Willem de Kooning, Easthampton
gelatin silver print
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Willem de Kooning (1904 – 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.

In the years after World War II, de Kooning painted in a style that came to be referred to as abstract expressionism or "action painting", and was part of a group of artists that came to be known as the New York School. Other painters in this group included Jackson Pollock, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Nell Blaine, Adolph Gottlieb, Anne Ryan, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, and Richard Pousette-Dart. De Kooning's retrospective held at MoMA in 2011–2012 made him one of the best-known artists of the 20th century.

For a more comprehensive biography of de Kooning see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 & 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 10-part series on the works of Willem de Kooning:


1954 Untitled
charcoal on paper laid on canvas 49.5 x 61.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1954 Untitled (Drawing #5)
pencil and ink on tracing paper 53.3 x 45 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1954 Untitled (Torso)
ink on paper 60.9 x 48.2 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1954 Untitled (Torsos)
ink on paper 59 x 47 cm
MoMA, New York Willem de Kooning
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1955 Composition
oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas 201 x 175.6 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1955 Gotham News
oil, enamel, charcoal, and newspaper transfer on canvas
175.2 x 200.6 cm
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
© Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1955 Police Gazette
oil, enamel and charcoal on canvas 109.8 x 127.6 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1955 Sagamore
oil, enamel and charcoal on paper mounted on board
 57.2 x 71.1 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1955 The Springs
masking tape and oil on board and paper 55.5 x 61.9 cm
SFMoMA (SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1955-56 Easter Monday
oil and newspaper transfer on canvas 243.8 x 187.9 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1956 Saturday Night
oil on canvas 174.6 x 200.7 cm
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1956-60 Untitled
Sapolin enamel on paper 55.6 x 75.6 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1956 Cedar Street
oil, black ink and charcoal on paper mounted on board
57.5 x 77 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1957 Ruth's Zowie
oil on canvas 203.8 x 178.1 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1957-58 Untitled #9
oil, charcoal and pencil on paper mounted on canvas
 51.7 x 39 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Composition III
oil on paper mounted on masonite 47.6 x 57.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Forest of Zogbaum
oil on paper mounted on canvas 122.6 x 150.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Lisbeth's Painting 1 (study for)
oil on paper mounted on masonite 31.8 x 35.9 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Lisbeth's Painting 2 (Primary Title)
oil on canvas 126.3 x 161.9
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Montauk Highway
oil and combined media on heavy paper mounted to canvas 149.9 x 121.9 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Suburb in Havana
oil on canvas 203.2 x 177.8 cm
Private Collection
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Untitled (Blue Profundity)
oil on paper 75.6 x 55.9 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Untitled
oil on paper laid on Masonite 47 x 60.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1958 Untitled
oil on paper, mounted on Masonite, mounted on wood
58.5 x 74 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Black and White Rome E
oil, enamel, gesso and collage on paper 71.1 x 99.7 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Black and White, Side A
enamel on paper 69.2 x 99.1 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Black and White, Side B
enamel on paper 69.2 x 99 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Two Women
ink on paper 59 x 47.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Untitled (Rome Series)
oil and collage on paper mounted to canvas 70.3 x 100 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Untitled
oil and pencil on paperboard 58.6 x 73.8 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Untitled
oil on paper 55.9 x 68.6 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1959 Untitled
oil on paper mounted on canvas 100.3 x 141 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Revenge
etching and aquatint 30.1 x 34.5 cm (plate)
© 2021 The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 A Tree in Naples
oil on canvas 203.7 x 178.1 cm
MoMA, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Door to the River
oil on linen 203.5 x 1781 cm
Whitney Museum of Art, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Litho #1 (Waves #1)
lithograph 116.4 x 80.6 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Litho #2 (Waves #2)
lithograph 108.5 x 78.1 cm
MoMA, New York Willem de Kooning
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Untitled (Composition Red, Yellow, Blue)
oil on card mounted on masonite 36.2 x 34.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Untitled (Woman)
graphite on paper 33 x 25.7 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Untitled
crayon and paper collage on paper mounted to canvas
34.3 x 49.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Untitled Landscape
gouache on paper collage 29.2 x 22.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1960 Villa Borghese
oil on canvas 203 x 178 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960-65 Study for Clam Diggers
charcoal, graphite and pastel on paper 27.9 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960-65 Untitled (Marilyn Monroe)
graphite on paper 38.1 x 43.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960 Untitled
charcoal on paper 28 x 21.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960 Untitled
charcoal on paper 33 x 21.5 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960 Untitled
oil and paper collage on board 29.2 x 39 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal and oil on vellum mounted to Kraft paper
 48.2 x 60.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on paper 27.9 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on paper 27.9 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on paper 27.9 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on paper 27.9 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on tracing paper 60 x 47.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on vellum 47.6 x 60.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on vellum 47.6 x 60.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
charcoal on vellum 72.3 x 57.1 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
graphite on paper 33 x 21.6 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1960s Untitled
ink on paper 45.7 x 60.9 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


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