Elaine DeKooning was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York and spent her childhood studying the lives of artists and visiting the museums and galleries of New York City. After high school she... Read full biography
Elaine DeKooning was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York and spent her childhood studying the lives of artists and visiting the museums and galleries of New York City. After high school she attended the American Artists School and the Leonardo da Vinci School and was swept up in the cultural... Read full biography
Elaine DeKooning was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York and spent her childhood studying the lives of artists and visiting the museums and galleries of New York City. After high school she attended the American Artists School and the Leonardo da Vinci School and was swept up in the cultural excitement in New York of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1943 she married Willem de Kooning, one of the group of artists soon to emerge as the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. He was... Read full biography
Elaine DeKooning was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York and spent her childhood studying the lives of artists and visiting the museums and galleries of New York City. After high school she attended the American Artists School and the Leonardo da Vinci School and was swept up in the cultural excitement in New York of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1943 she married Willem de Kooning, one of the group of artists soon to emerge as the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. He was sixteen years older than she. Elaine never completely abandoned representation. A substantial part of her career had been devoted to portraiture, for which she was particularly known in the 1950s and 1960s. Her most famous portrait commission was of... Read full biography
Elaine DeKooning was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York and spent her childhood studying the lives of artists and visiting the museums and galleries of New York City. After high school she attended the American Artists School and the Leonardo da Vinci School and was swept up in the cultural excitement in New York of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1943 she married Willem de Kooning, one of the group of artists soon to emerge as the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. He was sixteen years older than she. Elaine never completely abandoned representation. A substantial part of her career had been devoted to portraiture, for which she was particularly known in the 1950s and 1960s. Her most famous portrait commission was of President John F. Kennedy, which she was trying to complete at the time of his assassination. During most of her... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (61)
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler
2018
Gabriel, Mary
1,000 pages (color)
Elaine de Kooning: Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
2015
Fortune, Brandon
144 pages (color)
Elaine de Kooning: Full Circle: 1943-1988 (Exhibition catalog)
2011
Levis, James
21 pages (color)
American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless
2009
Herskovic, Marika
252 pages (color)
A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts
2008
Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole
240 pages (color)
Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
112 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
De Kooning: An American Master
2004
Stevens, Mark; Annalyn Swan
708 pages (color)
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
Portraits of the Presidents: The National Portrait Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Voss, Frederick
144 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Turning the Feather Around, My Life in Art
1998
Galt, Margot Fortunato
205 pages (color)
Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press
1996
Brown, Kathan
287 pages (color)
Elaine de Kooning (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Grimm, Jay
16 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Altshuler, Bruce
288 pages (color)
American Realism-Figurative Painting Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Arthur, John (Curator and Essayist)
64 pages (color)
Elaine DeKooning The Spirit of Abstract Expression
1994
DeKooning, Elaine/Rose Slivka
238 pages
Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage
1993
Hall, Lee
340 pages
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
Reframing Abstract Expression Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s
1993
Leja, Michael
392 pages
Abstract Expressionism Works on Paper
1993
Messinger, Lisa
163 pages (color)
The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art
1992
Kingsley, April
416 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol
1990
Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes
377 pages
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Sport in Art From American Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Plimpton, George; J. Carter Brown
128 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The Figurative Fifties New York Figurative Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Schimmel, Paul
195 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women
1987
Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine
163 pages (color)
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
National Mus of Women in the Arts
1987
National Museum of Women
253 pages (color)
Elaine de Kooning: The Time of the Bison (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Gruenebaum
17 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
Willem de Kooning
1983
Gaugh, Harry F
136 pages (color)
Twenty-Five Artists
1982
Messer, Thomas/Arlene Bujese
108 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World
1981
Myers, John Bernard
285 pages
The Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst
166 pages (color)
The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties
1978
Sandler, Irving
366 pages (color)
Tenth Street Days The Co-Ops of the 50's (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Bard, Joellan
80 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Originals:American Women Artists
1976
Munro, Eleanor
528 pages (color)
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
The Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York)
1972
Gruen, John
282 pages
Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967
Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh
342 pages
Women Artists of America 1707-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Gerdts, William H
32 pages
The Anxious Object Art Today and Its Audience
1964
Rosenberg, Harold
272 pages
60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties (Exhibition catalog)