De Kooning's first solo exhibition of black-and-white abstractions was held in 1948, and by 1950 he had become a key figure of abstract expressionism. He is ...

Willem de Kooning was a renowned American-Dutch painter that helped form the Abstract Expressionist movement. View Willem de Kooning's 3431 artworks on ...

Dutch-born painter Willem de Kooning was a leading figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and ...

Exhibition. Sep 18, 2011–Jan 9, 2012. This is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, ...

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 ...

De Kooning's first solo exhibition was held at the Egan Gallery, New York in 1948, establishing the artists' reputation. The show consisted largely of black-and ...

Willem de Kooning…Whose Name Was Writ in Water ... Although often cited as the originator of Action Painting, an abstract, purely formal and intuitive means of ...

Between 1946 and 1949, de Kooning produced a series of highly abstract black-and-white-paintings that culminated in Attic, in which angular, thrusting forms ...

In the late 1950s, Willem de Kooning began dividing his time between New York and eastern Long Island, then a rural area. His paintings of this period, ...