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Willem de Kooning

(American/Dutch, 1904–1997)

Willem de Kooning

Untitled - Chair, ca. 1957

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Willem de Kooning

Rainbow - Thelonius Monk - Devil at the Keyboard, 1972

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Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1904: Born: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1916: Attended Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts & Letters, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Apprentice to the commercial artists Jan and Jaap Gidding, Rotterdam
1920 - 1923: Art director of a Rotterdam department store
1926: Immigrated to the United States
1934: Joined the Artist's Union
1935: Joined mural division, W.P.A. Federal Art Project
1948: Instructor at Black Mountain College, Beria, North Carolina
1950 - 1951: Instructor at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1951: Recipient, Medal and Purchase Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1959 - 1960: Instructor at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1962: Became a United States Citizen
1964: Recipient, President's Freedom Award Medal
1968: Recipient, Talens Prize International, Amsterdam, The Netheralnds
1975: Recipient, Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1978: Recipient, Artist of the Year Award, Fairfield Arts Festival, CT
1979: Recipient, Mellon Prize (with Eduardo Chillida), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1982: Elected member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1984: Recipient, Max Beckman Prize, Frankfurt, Germany
: Recipient, Kaiser Ring Award, Goslar, Germany
1985: Awarded National Medal of Arts by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Washington, DC
1986: Awarded Mayor's Liberty Medal, New York, NY
1989: Awarded the Praemium Imperiale prize for painting
1993: Recipient, CAA Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement
1997: Died: East Hampton, Long Island, NY

Exhibitions

2010: Modern Times: responding to chaos - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900–1950s - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009: MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Originalgrafiken, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen - Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
American Abstractions Part 2: Paintings 1950's - Present - Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Figure and Dr Freud - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York, NY
Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2008: De Kooning, Mitchell, Richter: Paintings from the 1980s, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions: The Moderns, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Willem de Kooning, Lucio Fontana, Eva Hesse, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Miseum, New York, NY
Willem de Kooning: Works on Paper, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2007: Willem de Kooning: The Last Beginning, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2006: Willem de Kooning: Paintings 1975-1978, L&M Arts, New York, NY
Willem de Kooning, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
American Masters, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2005 - 2006: de Kooning: Paintings 1960-1980, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
2002: Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
2001: Willem de Kooning and John Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Willem de Kooning: 1987 Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
1997: Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s, The Walker Art Center, San Francisco, CA
1996: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1995: Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1994: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1993: C&M Arts, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
1990: Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1987: Margo Leavin Gallery, London, England
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986: Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, England
1985: Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
1984: Willem de Kooning - Zeichnungen, Gemälde, Skulpturen, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
1983: Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Holland
1982: C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York
1981: Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
1980: Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Germany
1979: St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MD
Pittsburgh International Series, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1978: Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
De Kooning 1969-1978, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
1976 - 1977: Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture, organized by the Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC (exhibition opened in Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
Paris-New York, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France
1976: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Gimpel Fils, London, England
1974: University of Alabama, University (toured the United States)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (toured the United States and Canada)
1972: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1971: M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1969: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (retrospective)
1968: Peintures Récentes, M. Knoedler et Cie, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, Asmterdam (retrospective; travelled to the Tate Gallery, London)
1967: M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1965: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Masschussetts (retrospective; travelled to the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
1964: 'Woman' Drawings by Willem de Kooning, James Goodman Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY
1962: Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1961: Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1958: The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1955: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1953: Retrospective, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1948: De Kooning, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1944: Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, Mortimer Brandt Gallery New York, NY
1942: American and French Painting, McMillen Inc. New York, NY
1936: New Horizons in American Art, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

Willem de Kooning

(American/Dutch, 1904–1997)

Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

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