Willem De Kooning Drawing - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300288549 ISBN 13: 9780300288544

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A career-spanning look at Willem de Kooning’s singular drawing practice
 
Known for his dynamic blend of drawing and painting, Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) did not believe in a distinction between the two mediums. In a career spanning seven decades, he explored the interrelation between drawing and painting to express a variety of recurring genres, themes, and motifs. Focusing exclusively on de Kooning’s drawing practice, this publication emphasizes process and technique to uncover how the artist achieved his characteristic active line.
 
Before moving to New York in the 1920s and joining his contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, in the “New York School” movement, de Kooning was rigorously trained in draftsmanship at the Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Sciences, Rotterdam, where he achieved mastery of traditional techniques at a young age. Willem de Kooning Drawing features nearly 250 works from the early 1920s to the 1980s, revealing the centrality of drawing to all aspects of his practice. Essays by eminent scholars and curators approach de Kooning’s work from a variety of perspectives—from examining de Kooning’s concept of “the glimpse” to nuancing his representations of women—demonstrating the artist’s enduring resonance.
 
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition schedule:
 
The Art Institute of Chicago
(June 14–September 20, 2026)
 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
(October 9, 2026–January 17, 2027)
 

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Kevin Salatino is chair and Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Curator, Mel Becker Solomon is associate research curator, and Charlotte Healy is senior research associate, all in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Margaret Holben Ellis is exhibition paper conservator for Willem de Kooning Drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Eugene Thaw Professor Emerita of Paper Conservation at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300288549
• ISBN 13: 9780300288544
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Salatino Kevin, Solomon Mel Becker, Ellis Margaret Holben, Healy Charlotte
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