Willem de Kooning, the Springs, New York
Artist
Dan Budnik
(American, born 1933)
Date1971
MediumCibachrome print
Dimensionsimage: 49.8 x 33.2 cm (19 5/8 x 13 1/16 in.)
sheet: 50.8 x 37.4 cm (20 x 14 3/4 in.)
sheet: 50.8 x 37.4 cm (20 x 14 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineHeald Foundation Fund
Terms
Object number1997.10
Label TextThe Dutch painter Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) arrived in New York in 1924. During the Depression he worked as part of the Federal Arts Program where met Arshile Gorky, John Graham, and Adolph Gottlieb. Together they conceived a new style combining concepts from psychology with the American sense of individuality.
De Kooning worked as a figurative painter despite his association with the Abstract Expressionists. Known for an arguably compulsive drive to paint women, de Kooning’s aggressive renderings created scandal when first displayed. Like Cézanne, de Kooning saw the body as unstable and constantly in flux. This anxiety about the body partly accounts for the vehemence of his brushstroke.
ProvenanceThe artist; G.W. Einstein Co., Inc., New YorkOn View
Not on view
