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Willem de Kooning Biography
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1904 |
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Born: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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1916 |
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Attended Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts & Letters, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Apprentice 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 at Black Mountain College, Beria, North Carolina
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1950 - 1951 |
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Instructor at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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1951 |
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Recipient, Medal and Purchase Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
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1959 - 1960 |
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Instructor at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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1962 |
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Became a United States Citizen
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1964 |
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Recipient, President's Freedom Award Medal
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1968 |
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Recipient, Talens Prize International, Amsterdam, The Netheralnds
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1975 |
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Recipient, Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
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1978 |
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Recipient, Artist of the Year Award, Fairfield Arts Festival, CT
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1979 |
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Recipient, Mellon Prize (with Eduardo Chillida), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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1982 |
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Elected member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
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1984 |
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Recipient, Max Beckman Prize, Frankfurt, Germany
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1984 |
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Recipient, Kaiser Ring Award, Goslar, Germany
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1985 |
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Awarded National Medal of Arts by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Washington, DC
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1986 |
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Awarded Mayor's Liberty Medal, New York, NY
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1989 |
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Awarded the Praemium Imperiale prize for painting
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1993 |
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Recipient, CAA Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement
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1997 |
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Died: East Hampton, Long Island, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Modern Times: responding to chaos - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900–1950s - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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2009
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MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Originalgrafiken, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen - Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
American Abstractions Part 2: Paintings 1950's - Present - Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Figure and Dr Freud - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York, NY
Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
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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, Belgium
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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, Switzerland
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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, NY
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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1995
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Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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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, NY
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
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1990
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Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
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1987
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Margo Leavin Gallery, London, England
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1986
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Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, England
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1985
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Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
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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, MD
Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York
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1981
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Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
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1980
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Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Germany
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1979
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St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MD
Pittsburgh International Series, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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1978
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Willem de Kooning in East Hampton, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
De Kooning 1969-1978, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
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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, Seattle, WA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Gimpel Fils, London, England
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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, NY
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1969
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (retrospective)
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1968
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Peintures Récentes, M. Knoedler et Cie, Paris, France
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, NY
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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, NY
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1962
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Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
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1961
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Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
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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, NY
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1953
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Retrospective, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
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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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