Monday 12 December 2022

Willem de Kooning - part 6

Willem de Kooning in his studio 1951
Smithsonian Institution Archives

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 - 5 also.

This is part 6 of a 10-part series on the works of Willem de Kooning:


Untitled series of charcoal on paper drawings in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. All images © The Willem de Kooning Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York:

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1966 Untitled
charcoal on paper 25.4 x 20.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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c1966 Untitled (Woman on Orange Sheet)
oil on masonite 81.3 x 66 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1966 Untitled
charcoal on vellum 47.6 x 60.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 Figure with Red Hair
oil on paper mounted to canvas 59 x 47 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 Two Figures in a Landscape
oil on canvas 177.8 x 203.2 cm
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 Untitled (Two Women)
"Happy Birthday dear Lad love Bill"
watercolour and pencil on paper 35.5 x 56.2 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 Untitled (Woman)
oil on newspaper mounted on board 56.2 x 74 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 Untitled
charcoal on vellum 47.6 x 59.7 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 Untitled
oil and charcoal on paper 61.1 x 46.4 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 White Nude
oil on paper 47 x 61.2 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
 Washington, DC
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1967 Woman on a Sign II
oil on paper mounted on canvas 142.3 x 105.4 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1967-69 Untitled
pencil and charcoal on vellum 47 x 51.8 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1967 Untitled "to Gaston"
charcoal on paper 60.3 x 48.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1967 Woman in a Landscape
oil on paper mounted on canvas 92 x 72.7 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1968 East Hampton III
oil on paper mounted to canvas 106 x 77 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1968 East Hampton IV
oil on paper mounted to canvas 50.1 x 47 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1968 East Hampton XVII
oil on paper mounted to canvas 102.9 x 67.3 cm
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation -
 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


1968-88 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Seventeen lithographs:

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 1

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 2

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 3

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 4

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 5

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 6

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 7

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 8

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 9

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 10

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 11

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 12

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 13

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 14

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 15

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 16

1988 Frank O'Hara Portfolio: Untitled
lithograph on chine colle 35 x 28 (plate) 17


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