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Object Details
- Artist
- Willem de Kooning, American, b. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1904–1997
- Provenance
- The artist, New York, from 1943
- Martha Jackson, New York, 1954-1962
- Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, to 20 March 1962
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 20 March 1962-17 May 1966
- Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
- * An early, variant title for this painting was Pink Woman.
- ** Dated 1943-46 on an invoice from Martha Jackson Gallery, March 20, 1962.
- Exhibition History
- MARTHA JACKSON GALLERY, New York. "Woman," 16 September-3 October 1953.
- UNIVERSITY GALLERIES, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "Nebraska Art Association Sixty-fourth Annual Exhibition," 28 February-28 March 1954, cat, ill, n.p. (listed as Pink Woman).
- MARTHA JACKSON GALLERY, New York. "Recent Oils by Willem de Kooning," 9 November-3 December 1955, no. 9, ill. (Dated 1943.)
- MARTHA JACKSON GALLERY, New York. "Selections 1934-1961: American Artists from the Collection of Martha Jackson," 6 February-3 March 1962, p. 10, ill. p. 11.
- TRABIA-MORRIS GALLERY, New York. "Art of the Americas," 16 October-10 November 1962, cat., ill.
- WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "The Friends Collect," 7 May-16 June 1964, no. 32.
- SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Northampton, Massachusetts. "Willem de Kooning: a Retrospective Exhibition from Public and Private Collections," 8 April-2 May 1965, no. 5. TOUR: THE HAYDEN GALLERY, MIT, 10 May-16 June 1965.
- STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam. "Willem de Kooning," 22 September-
- 17 November 1968, no. 14, ill. MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATING TOUR: TATE GALLERY, London, 5 December-26 January 1969; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, 3 March-27 April no. 16, ill. p. 41; THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, 16 May-6 July; LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, 28 July-14 September 1969.
- METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. "New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970," 18 October 1969-8 February 1970, cat. no. 56, ill. p. 134.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 18 October 1974-15 September 1975, plate 502, p. 357; p. 681.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976," 20 May-20 October 1976, cat. no. 110, ill. p. 256.
- STADTISCHE KUNSTALLE, Dusseldorf. "2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische Malerei: 1920-1940," 10 June-12 August 1979, cat. no. 147, ill. p. 135. TOUR: KUNSTHAUS, Zurich, 23 August-28 October 1979; PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, Brussels, 10 November-30 December 1979.
- NASSAU COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Roslyn, New York. "The Abstract Expressionists and Their Precursors," 17 January-22 -March 1981, no. 13.
- WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York. "Willem de Kooning:
- Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture," 15 December 1983-26 February 1984, ill. p. 150. TOUR: AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE, Berlin, 11 March-29 April 1984; MUSEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 28 June-24 September, ill. p. 65.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 21 October 1993-9 January 1994, no. 2, pp. 60-61. TOUR: FUNDACIO "LA CAIXA," CENTRE CULTURAL, Barcelona, 17 February-3 April 1994; HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, Atlanta, 13 September-27 November 1994; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, 10 December 1994-19 February 1995; MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston, 19 March-28 May 1995.
- SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, New York. "Between Art and Life: From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art," cat. TOUR: CENTRO CULTURAL FUNDACIO " LA CAIXA," Barcelona, 28 January-28 March 1999; SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt, 21 April-4 July 1999.
- MUSEE D'ART AMERICAIN GIVERNY, France. "American Moderns, 1900-1950," 25 July-31 October 2000, cat. no. 16.
- MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "de Kooning: A Retrospective," 18 September 2011-9 January 2012, colorplate 22, p. 105 (color detail, p. 106); figs. 1-2 (color), pp. 107-108; p. 199.
- Published References
- PORTER, FAIRFIELD. "Reviews and Previews," Art News 54 (November 1955), p. 49
- STEINBERG, LEO. "Month in Review," Arts Magazine 30 (November 1955), p. 46, ill. p. 47
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- PEASE, JR., ROLAND, F. "Gallery Previews in New York," Pictures on
- Exhibit 25/6 (March 1962), p. 23
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- 37 (December 1962), p. 46
- ALLOWAY, LAWRENCE. Francis Bacon (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1963), p. 17
- DENBY, EDWIN. "My Friend de Kooning," Art News Annual 29 (1964),
- ill. p. 89
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- Retrospective," Art International 9/8 (November 20, 1965), p. 30
- KOZLOFF, MAX. "The Critical Reception of Abstract Expressionism,"
- Arts Magazine 40 (December 1965), ill. p. 29
- ROSE, BARBARA. American Art Since 1900 (New York: Praeger, 1967),
- p. 182, ill. 6-32 (also 2nd rev. ed, 1975, p. 155, ill. 6-28, and 3rd ed., 1977)
- GENAUER, EMILY. "De Kooning's Complaint," Newsday (8 March 1969),
- p. 14w, ill.
- FORGE, ANDREW. "De Kooning in Retrospect," Art News 68 (March
- 1969), ill. p. 45 (detail)
- KRAMER, HILTON. "De Kooning Survey Opens at the Modern," The New
- York Times (March 5, 1969), p. 38, ill.
- UNSIGNED. "On Exhibition," Studio International 178 (September 1969),
- p. 99, ill. no. 29
- KRAMER, HILTON. "30 Years of the New York School," The New York Times Magazine (12 October 1969), p. 38, colorplate
- JACOBS, JAY. "Collector: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," Art in America 57
- (July-August 1969), p. 68
- UNSIGNED. "On Exhibition," Studio International 178/914 (September 1969), p. 99.
- METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. News and Calendar of Events (October 1969), n.p., ill.
- SANDLER, IRVING. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism (New York: Praeger, 1970), p. 123, ill. 9-2, p. 124
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- The Collector in America (New York: Viking, 1971), p. 75
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- ill. 22
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- (College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland, 1973), p. 7
- ROSENBERG, HAROLD. Willem de Kooning (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), p. 29, colorplate 34
- GARSON, INEZ. Willem de Kooning in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
- Garden (New York: Scala, 1974), color colorplate, no. 2
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- LERNER, ABRAM. An Introduction to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
- Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), ill. no. 67
- LARSON, PHILIP and PETER SCHJELDAHL. De Kooning Drawings & Sculpture (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1974), n.p., ill. 15 (with wrong caption)
- BRACKETT, WARD. When You Paint (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974), ill.
- p. 104
- KRAMER, HILTON. "The Hirshhorn Museum: an 'Important' collection in a 'Bomb Shelter,'" The New York Times (6 October 1974), p. 29
- R[OBERTS], K[EITH]. "Acquisitions of Modern Art by Museums,"
- Burlington Magazine 116/860 (November 1974), p. 702, ill. 113
- BUTLER, JOSEPH. "America," Connoisseur 187/753 (November 1974): p. 207.
- LYNES, RUSSELL. "From Century ago to Just Yesterday at the Hirshhorn," Smithsonian 5/10 (January 1975), p. 48, colorplate p. 47
- SUTER, LOLA. "New Hirshhorn Museum Houses Rich Collection,"
- Enterprise-Record Chico, California (18 March 1975)
- HUDSON, ANDREW. "Washington Letter," Art International 19/6 (15 June 1975): p. 100.
- MIYAHARA, YASUHARU. Willem de Kooning--The Angry Youths (Tokyo:
- Atsushi Oshita, 1975), p. 68
- GLUBOK, SHIRLEY. The Art of America Since World War II (New York:
- MacMillan, 1976), p. 18, ill.
- LAUTER, ESTELLA. "Homage to Anima: Some Psychological and Cultural
- Implications of Willem de Kooning's Images of Woman," Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 59 (1976), pp. 426, 429, ill. p. 428
- SHARP YOUNG, MAHONRI. "Letter from the U.S.A.: 'Give me your tired,
- your poor,'" Apollo n.s., 104 (November 1976), ill. p. 406
- GOLDSTEIN, NATHAN. Painting: Visual and Technical Fundamentals
- (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1978), ill. (and ill. in promotional literature)
- YARD, SALLY. "Willem de Kooning's Women," Arts Magazine 53 (November 1978), p. 97
- BRACKETT, WARD. When You Paint: A Complete Guide for Practicing
- Artists (Connecticut: North Light Publishers, 1979), p. 18
- HYAMS, BARRY. Hirshhorn: Medici from Brooklyn (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979), p. 116
- YARD, SALLY E. Willem de Kooning: The First Twenty-six Years in New
- York, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1980, p. 63, 111-14, fig. 124
- SELZ, PETER. Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History, 1890-1980 (New
- York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Harry N. Abrams, 1981), p. 363, fig. 977
- GAUGH, HARRY F. Willem de Kooning (New York: Abbeville Press, 1983),
- fig. 104, p. 116
- PARK, EDWARDS. Treasures of the Smithsonian (New York: Harry N.
- Abrams, 1983), ill.
- BECK, JAMES. "The Joy of Painting: Willem de Kooning Towards Eighty," Arts Magazine 58 (February 1984), ill. p. 141
- JODIDIO, PHILIP. "Peindre le desordre de l'epoque," Connaissance des
- Arts no. 388 (June 1984), ill. p. 48
- ROSAND, DAVID. "Willem de Kooning: an American Master," Dialogue 67 (January 1985): p. 50.
- ROSAND, DAVID. "Portfolio: Willem de Kooning: an American Master," Trends (August 1985): p. 49.
- HOBHOUSE, JANET. The Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987), no. 219, ill.
- WALDMAN, DIANE. Willem de Kooning (New York: Harry N. Abrams with
- the National Museum of American Art, 1988), no. 30
- WARD, JOHN. American Realist Painting, 1945-1980 (Ann Arbor / London: UMI Research Press, 1989): p.17; fig. 7 p. 19; p. 57.
- SHAPIRO, DAVID, and CECILE SHAPIRO. Abstract Expressionism: A Critical Record (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), ill. p. 6
- LEWIS, JO ANN. "De Kooning, Reconsidered: The Big Question: Is he America's Greatest Artist?" Washington Post (12 September 1993): p. G7.
- EITNER, LORENZ, BETSY G. FRYBERGER, and CAROL M. OSBORNE. The Drawing Collection: Stanford University Museum of Art (Stanford University Museum of Art, 1993): p. 292.
- BURCHARD, HANK. "The De Kooning Mystique, Washington Post? (1993).
- RICHARD, PAUL. "De Kooning: Driven to Abstraction," The Washington Post (21 October 1993): p. B1, B10.
- SUFFIELD, LAURA. "The artist and his patron: De Kooning at the Hirshhorn," The Art Newspaper 32 (November 1993): p. 10.
- UNSIGNED. "Let's Go to the Smithsonian," Let's Go! (November 1993).
- MARTELLI, TIZIANO. "Buon compleanno signor De Kooning dalle sue donne," (unknown journal) (1993?): p. 26.
- SOTHEBY'S NEW YORK. Contemporary Art, Part I: Wednesday, November 10, 1993 at 7pm (New York: Sotheby's, 1993): lot no. 6.
- UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning: Hirshhorn Museum," Journal of the Print World (Fall 1993): p. 46.
- UNSIGNED. "Calendar," Museum News (November/December 1993): p. 16.
- SMITH, ROBERTA. "De Kooning's 90th Birthday nears, and Hirshhorn leads the tribute," New York Times (4 December 1993): p. C19.
- UNSIGNED. "Artist Roy Lichtenstein turns 70; tributes to Willem de Kooning," The Philadelphia Inquirer (5 December 1993): p. H6.
- SOL, ADRIAN PIERA. "Willem de Kooning," El Guia. Arte del arco mediterraneo 1 (January/February 1994): p. 128.
- CATEFORIS, DAVID. "Willem de Kooning," Art Journal 53/4 (Winter 1994): 86-89.
- UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning, figura clave del expresionismo abstracto," Panorama (February 1994): p. 9.
- CASALE, RAMON. "Quelle veneri preistoriche," Arte in (February 1994) p. 39-40.
- UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning," Expo Guia (February 1994): p. 18.
- M.F.C. "L'art de l'expressionista abstracte Willem de Kooning arriba per primer cop a Barcelona," Avui (18 February 1994): p. 45.
- EFE. "Cincuenta obras de Willem de Kooning se exponen en Barcelona," Barcelona (Cataluna) (18 February 1994).
- UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning pintorearen obra Bartzelonan," Egunkaria (19 February 1994).
- UNSIGNED. "De Kooning, figurativo y abstracto," Este fin de Semana, El Periodico (25 February 1994): p. 10.
- UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning, la clave del arco del expresionismo abstracto," El Punto de las Artes (25 February-3 March 1994): p. 12.
- UNSIGNED. Presencia (1994): p. 29.
- UNSIGNED. La Brocha (1 March 1994).
- EVR. "La violencia del gest o una altra manera d'entendre la ironia," Diari de Girona (3 April 1994): p. 28.
- ANFAM, DAVID. "Washington and Barcelona," Burlington Magazine (April 1994): p. 69-70.
- HAMMETT, HOLLY. "Off the Shelf: Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," Smithsonian Institution: Research Reports 76 (Spring 1994).
- FRISACH, MONTSE. "Willem de Kooning: el arte 'inutil y libre,'" Estrella Magazine (Spring 1994): p. 47-49.
- CATEFORIS, DAVID. Willem de Kooning (New York: Rizzoli Art Series, 1994): colorplate no. 2.
- UNSIGNED. "Museum and Dealer Catalogues" Drawing 16/1 (May/June 1994): p. 17.
- SYLVESTER, DAVID and RICHARD SCHIFF. Willem de Kooning (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994): p. 97.
- SPRECHER, MARY. "An abstract look at Kooning," Southern Flair (September 1994).
- UNSIGNED. Smithsonian Year 1993: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ended September 30, 1993 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994): p. 44.
- UNSIGNED. "De Kooning Retrospective honors artist's Birthday," Antiques and the Arts Weekly (4 November 1994): p. 99.
- TEMIN, CHRISTINE. "Rediscovering de Kooning: Original art star's work returns to Hub," The Boston Globe (9 December 1994): 49, 59.
- UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Gallery Guide/Art Now (December 1994): p. 29.
- FORMAN, DEBBIE. Cape Cod Times (1994 or 1995) C1, C6.
- UNSIGNED. "Artist's abstract paintings detail visionary insight," Register-Mail (24 December 1994).
- UNSIGNED. Art New England (December 1994-January 1995).
- UNSIGNED. "Willem de Kooning at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," Journal of the Print World (Winter 1995): p. 46
- ART NOW/GALLERY GUIDE. (February 1995): p. 32 (back cover).
- MFA HOUSTON. Member's Preview Invitation to "Willem de Kooning: from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," (1995).
- CHADWICK, SUSAN. "An important look at Willem de Kooning," The Houston Post: Weekend Calendar (17 March 1995).
- JOHNSON, PATRICIA. "Willem de Kooning: abstract women and master strokes define MFA exhibit," Houston Chronicle (18 MArch 1995): p. 1C. 8C.
- UNSIGNED. "William de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection, MFA Houston Calendar (1995): p. 9-10.
- KALIL, SUSAN. "Defining de Kooning," Houston Press (20-26 April 1995): p. 4.
- LIEBER, EDVARD. Music to Painting (Concord Jazz, Inc., 1996): CD; CD insert: ill. p. 5.
- RATCLIFF, CARTER. The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar Art (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996): p. 103.
- RICHARD, PAUL. "A Life's Strong Currents: the art of Willem de Kooning was like the ever-changing ocean," The Washington Post (20 March 1997): p. B1, B4
- YARD, SALLY. Willem de Kooning (New York: Rizzoli, 1997): p. 24.
- HASKELL, BARBARA. The American Centurey: Art & Culture 1900-1950 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999): p. 328.
- MORRIS, CATHERINE. The Essential Willem de Kooning (The Wonderland Press, 1999): p. 47.
- MESSER, THOMAS. Between Art and Life: From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art (1999): p. 58.
- TERRA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS. American Moderns: 1900-1950. Edited by Francesca Rose; published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Musee d'Art Americain Giverny, 25 July-31 October 2000 (Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2000): figure 16.
- SOTHEBY'S NEW YORK. A Private American Collection, New York Tuesday, November 12, 2002. (Sotheby's New York, 2002): p. 28.
- ARNHOLD, HERMANN et al. Sean Scully: Vita Duplex (Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2018), fig. 3 (color), p. 57.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
- 1943-1946
- Accession Number
- 66.1223
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil and charcoal on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 46 1/8 x 27 5/8 in. (117 x 70 cm)
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- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- Abstract Expressionism (First Generation)
- On View
- Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_66.1223
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2b2fe00b0-515f-401c-b0c4-e7c2e0a08a91
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