Provides a pictorial record of the abstract expressionist's approach to art

De Kooning

Arts & Photography

ROSENBERG, Harold

DE KOONING, WILLEM

Individual Artists

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

From DJ flap - One of the masters of mid-twentieth-century painting and a powerful influence on the artists, Willem de Kooning is also one of the great draftsmen of the age. This volume surveys fifty years of his drawings, selected by the critic who is most familiar with his work, and approved by the artist himself. It begins with early works, but moves quickly into the artist's first major series of drawings of abstractions. (Description by http-mart)

Willem de Kooning drawings (A Paul Bianchini book)

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

Willem de Kooning: Paintings

One of America's greatest painters, Willem de Kooning is a masterful colourist whose huge canvases are charged with enormous energy. The publication of this beautiful book, which presents eighty of de Kooning's finest paintings and painted works on paper from the early 1940s to the 1980s, coincides with the artist's ninetieth birthday in the spring of 1994. Organized thematically and chronologically, the book focuses on de Kooning's most noteworthy and original painted achievements: portraits from the early 1940s; black-and-white abstractions from 1945 to 1949 that established de Kooning as a leader of the abstract expressionist movement; monumental cityscape paintings from 1949 and 1950; key selections from the notorious Woman series of 1945 to 1954; highway and pastoral landscape abstractions from 1954 to 1960; lush figures in landscapes from 1966 to 1973; landscapes from the 1970s; and later expressive and calligraphic "tableaux." Drawing on new archival sources, essays by David Sylvester, Richard Shiff, and Marla Prather reassess de Kooning's critical status, examine his complex and evocative painting techniques, place him in the context of other artists and art movements of his era, and discuss the fundamental impact of his art on subsequent generations. The book serves as the catalogue for a major retrospective of de Kooning's work that will be on exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from 8 May 1994 to 5 September 1994, the Metropolitan Museum in New York from 6 October 1994 to 8 January 1995, and the Tate Gallery in London from 15 February 1995 to 7 May 1995.

Willem De Kooning: Paintings

Shiff, Richard

Prather, Marla

SYLVESTER, David

Natl Gallery of Art

Willem De Kooning: The Late Paintings, the 1980s [Oct 02, 1995] De Kooning, Willem; Garrels, Gary;

Willem De Kooning: The Late Paintings, the 1980s

GARRELS, Gary

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

STORR, Robert

History & Criticism

Walker Art Center

Book by De Kooning, Willem, Storr, Robert, Garrels, Gary

History

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) regularly created series of drawings, sometimes continuing them intermittently over a decade. Despite de Koonings renown as a painter and draftsman, there have been no publications to look at selected groups of his drawings in depth. This book, and the traveling exhibition organized by The Drawing Center, New York, presents four of his drawing series, affording a closer view of de Koonings working process and his constant reinvention of mark-making. 
The earliest series to be included, Folded Shirt on Laundry Paper, 1958, is figured by a calligraphic spareness and openness that lays bare a panoply of mark-making possibilities with brush and ink. The second series are twenty-four drawings from 1966 which the artist created with eyes closed. These works make clear just how totally interdependent de Koonings memory and drawing hand were. But for their documentation, they are indistinguishable from his drawings made with eyes open. Several of the drawings are of the Crucifixion, and this subject, unique for de Kooning, comprises the third group of drawings executed in the mid- and late-1960s. These drawings take fullest advantage of charcoals lush flexibility. The fourth group, almost never seen, is comprised of tracings made on large sheets of vellum of painting configurations that might be employed in subsequent works. Done from the late-1960s through the 1970s, these double-sided drawings are made startlingly complete by de Koonings subsequent improvisations added to them. 
Each series will be discussed in relation to the artists contemporaneous painting and will explicate his constantly changing but interrelated means. No other artist of his generation produced drawings so regularly and so superbly. Drawing is the crucible of de Koonings art.

Willem De Kooning: Drawing Seeing/Seeing Drawing

Drawing Center (New York, N. Y.)

Kertess,klaus

Arena Editions

This catalog is the first to examine in depth Willem de Kooning's use of vellum and charcoal transfers in his artistic process. The way de Kooning copied from his own drawings and paintings to create new works of art is ingeniously illustrated through vellum overlay inserts.

Willem De Kooning: Vellums

RICHARDSON, Brenda

Mitchell-Innes & Nash

2000 Introduction by Bob Monk; Conversation between Kimiko Powers &amp; Bob Monk; Essay by Robert Rosenblum 9 1/4 x 12 inches (23.5 x 30.5 cm); 96 pages; 32 color illustrations Designed by Bruce Mau Inc., Toronto; Printed by Bowne, Toronto

Willem de Kooning: Mostly women

GAGOSIAN GALLERY

Willem De Kooning: Slipping Glimpses, 1920s to 1960s

Allan Stone Gallery

Willem de Kooning

FAGE

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