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Biography |
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1904 |
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Born in Rotterdam, Holland |
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1916 |
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Enrolled, Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts & Letters, Rotterdam, Holland
Apprenticed to the commercial artists Jan and Jaap Gidding, Rotterdam |
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1920 - 1923 |
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Art director of a Rotterdam department store |
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1926 |
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Immigrated to the United States |
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1934 |
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Joined the Artist's Union |
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1935 |
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Joined mural division, W.P.A. Federal Art Project |
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1948 |
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Instructor, Black Mountain College, Beria, North Carolina |
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1950 - 1951 |
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Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
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1959 - 1960 |
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Instructor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
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1962 |
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Became United States Citizen |
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1982 |
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Elected member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany |
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1997 |
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Died |
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Awards and Honors
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Medal and Purchase Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, 1951 |
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President's Freedom Award Medal, 1964 |
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Talens Prize International, Amsterdam 1968 |
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Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1975 |
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Artist of the Year Award, Fairfield Arts Festival, Connecticut, 1978 |
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Mellon Prize (with Eduardo Chillida), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1979 |
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Max Beckman Prize, Frankfurt, 1984 |
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Kaiser Ring Award, Goslar, 1984 |
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Awarded National Medal of Arts by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Washington, DC, 1985 |
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Mayor's Liberty Medal, New York, 1986 |
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Praemium Imperiale of Japan Art Association, 1989 |
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CAA Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, 1993 |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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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 |
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2007 |
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Willem de Kooning: The Last Beginning, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
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2006 |
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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 |
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2005 - 2006 |
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de Kooning: Paintings 1960-1980, Kunstmuseum, Basel |
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2002 |
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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 |
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2001 |
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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 |
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1997 |
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Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, The 1980s, The Walker Art Center, San Francisco, CA |
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1996 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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1995 |
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Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco |
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1994 |
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
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1993 |
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C&M Arts, New York
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. |
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1990 |
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Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York |
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1987 |
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Margo Leavin Gallery, London
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago |
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1986 |
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Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London |
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1985 |
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Studio Marconi, Milan |
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1984 |
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Willem de Kooning - Zeichnungen, Gemälde, Skulpturen, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany |
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1983 |
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Willem de Kooning: The North Atlantic Light, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Holland |
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1982 |
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C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore
Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York |
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1981 |
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Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York |
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1980 |
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Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf |
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1979 |
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St. Louis Art Museum
Pittsburgh International Series, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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1978 |
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Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, Guggenheim Museum, New York
De Kooning 1969-1978, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls |
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1976 - 1977 |
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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 |
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1976 |
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Seattle Art Museum
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Gimpel Fils, London |
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1974 |
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University of Alabama, University (toured the United States)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (toured the United States and Canada) |
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1972 |
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
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1971 |
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M. Knoedler and Company, New York |
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1969 |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York (retrospective) |
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1968 |
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Peintures Récentes, M. Knoedler et Cie, Paris
Stedelijk Museum, Asmterdam (retrospective; travelled to the Tate Gallery, London) |
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1967 |
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M. Knoedler and Company, New York |
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1965 |
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Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Masschussetts (retrospective; travelled to the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge) |
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1964 |
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'Woman' Drawings by Willem de Kooning, James Goodman Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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1962 |
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Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning, Allan Stone Gallery, New York |
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1961 |
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Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California |
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1958 |
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The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY |
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1955 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York |
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1953 |
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Retrospective, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
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1950 |
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Venice Biennale Venice, Italy |
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1948 |
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De Kooning, Egan Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY |
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1944 |
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Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, Mortimer Brandt Gallery New York, NY |
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1942 |
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American and French Painting, McMillen Inc. New York, NY |
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1936 |
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New Horizons in American Art, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY |
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