De kooning attic

          Seated woman sculpture.

           de Kooning: An American Master

          Photo: Dan Budnik.

          Woman de kooning

        1. Woman de kooning
        2. Late de kooning
        3. Seated woman sculpture
        4. De kooning woman series
        5. Henri de toulouse-lautrec on view

          6. Woodfin Camp & Associates (from de Kooning: An American Master)

          Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists.

          In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, de Kooning worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.

          “Brilliant, sweeping, authoritative…The elusiveness of its subject makes the achievements of de Kooning: An American Master that much more dazzling.”

          Awards

          • 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Biography

          • National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2005

          • The Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography, 2005

          • One of the 10 Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times

          • The Engl