Object Details
- Artist
- Willem de Kooning, born Rotterdam, Netherlands 1904-died East Hampton, NY 1997
- Gallery Label
- Willem de Kooning's work is based in improvisation and free gesture. Here, an elegant line defines what could be read as a landscape, a figure, or simply a series of looping forms. Throughout his career, the artist shifted between representational and abstract modes of expression. "Art should not have to be a certain way," he once said. "It is no use worrying about being related to something it is impossible not to be related to."
- Born in the Netherlands, de Kooning came to the United States in 1926 without a passport or visa. Arriving as an academically trained commercial artist, he went on to become a defining figure of abstract painting in New York.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection
- ca. 1942-1944
- Object number
- 1980.6.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 3rd Floor, North Wing
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Record ID
- saam_1980.6.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7c061b305-1516-466c-af7c-876de73a0111
