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Willem de Kooning - 1904-1997
Gotham News, 1955
oil on canvas
69 ½ x 79 ¾ inches
© 2009 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society, New York
Willem de Kooning, born in Rotterdam Holland, received early training at the academy in Rotterdam primarily in what was referred to as applied art. Here he learned the craft of building displays for department stores, poster design, illustration, lettering and other commercial applications.
Coming to the US in 1926 and moving to Manhattan in 1927 he met artists Arshile Gorky and John Graham both of whom were to become his biggest supporters and influences in his new artistic milieu.
While his most recognizable signature works were strong and violent abstractions of women he quite often created in the realm of pure abstraction with no subject matter other than his paint and the fertile impressions of his cavernous collective unconscious. Gotham News is one of the latter.
Permission to post this image generously given by the Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society and the Albright-Knox Gallery.
Willem de Kooning - 1904-1997
Gotham News, 1955
oil on canvas
69 ½ x 79 ¾ inches
© 2009 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society, New York
Willem de Kooning, born in Rotterdam Holland, received early training at the academy in Rotterdam primarily in what was referred to as applied art. Here he learned the craft of building displays for department stores, poster design, illustration, lettering and other commercial applications.
Coming to the US in 1926 and moving to Manhattan in 1927 he met artists Arshile Gorky and John Graham both of whom were to become his biggest supporters and influences in his new artistic milieu.
While his most recognizable signature works were strong and violent abstractions of women he quite often created in the realm of pure abstraction with no subject matter other than his paint and the fertile impressions of his cavernous collective unconscious. Gotham News is one of the latter.
Permission to post this image generously given by the Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society and the Albright-Knox Gallery.