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Biography
1904
Born in Rotterdam, Holland
1916
Enrolled, Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts & Letters, Rotterdam, Holland Apprenticed 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, Black Mountain College, Beria, North Carolina
1950 - 1951
Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1959 - 1960
Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1962
Became United States Citizen
1982
Elected member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1997
Died
Awards and Honors
Medal and Purchase Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, 1951
President's Freedom Award Medal, 1964
Talens Prize International, Amsterdam 1968
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1975
Artist of the Year Award, Fairfield Arts Festival, Connecticut, 1978
Mellon Prize (with Eduardo Chillida), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1979
Max Beckman Prize, Frankfurt, 1984
Kaiser Ring Award, Goslar, 1984
Awarded National Medal of Arts by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Washington, DC, 1985
Mayor's Liberty Medal, New York, 1986
Praemium Imperiale of Japan Art Association, 1989
CAA Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1993
Exhibitions
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
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
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 Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
1995
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1994
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1993
C&M Arts, New York Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
1990
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York
1987
Margo Leavin Gallery, London Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1986
Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London
1985
Studio Marconi, Milan
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 Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York
1981
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
1980
Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf
1979
St. Louis Art Museum Pittsburgh International Series, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1978
Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, Guggenheim Museum, New York De Kooning 1969-1978, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
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 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Gimpel Fils, London
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
1969
Museum of Modern Art, New York (retrospective)
1968
Peintures Récentes, M. Knoedler et Cie, Paris Stedelijk Museum, Asmterdam (retrospective; travelled to the Tate Gallery, London)
1967
M. Knoedler and Company, New York
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
1962
Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning, Allan Stone Gallery, New York
1961
Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
1958
The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1955
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1953
Retrospective, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1950
Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
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
