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| Willem de Kooning art links |
At one time, it was very daring to make a figure red or blue - I think now that it is just as daring to make it flesh-colored.
| | - Willem de Kooning, in a BBC TV interview, 1963 |
Willem de Kooning Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Willem de Kooning available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 5 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Untitled, 1960
(In the "Lithograph" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Woman IV, 1952-53 (Zoom)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Willem de Kooning at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Waves I
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Gotham News, 1955
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Two Women III, drawing
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
2 works online
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Woman VI, 1953
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Willem de Kooning: In Process
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Woman Springs, 1966
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Untitled
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Untitled (Woman), 1971
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Untitled, 1977
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park at Florida International University, Miami
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Untitled (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Works from the Gemini G.E.L. prints online catalogue raisonné
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Standing Figure
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Marilyn Monroe, 1954
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian) 
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Dedication (To Joseph H. Hirshhorn), charcoal on paper, 1970
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Two trees on Mary Street... Amen!, 1975
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Untitled XXII, 1983
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Woman
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Singing Women, 1966
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Mini-site for the 2007-2008 exhibition Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art
The Menil Collection, Texas
Black and White Rome S, 1959
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "Modern" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Devil at the Keyboard
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Montauk
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Woman, 1949-50
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Clam Digger
The Halter Collection
4 paintings online
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
Untitled, 1969
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Untitled, graphite drawing, study for the Woman series
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Untitled, print
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Photograph of the artist by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Willem de Kooning 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Police Gazette, 1955
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Montauk I, 1969
ARTnews
Woman, I, 1950-52
ARTnews
"De Kooning's Deception"
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 69): Willem de Kooning
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 22): Willem de Kooning: Paintings
Slate Magazine
"Brushed Off: Why Willem de Kooning's late works shouldn't be," article by Alexi Worth
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Woman I, 1950-52
The New Yorker
"Ghosts", 2001 article by Peter Schjeldahl
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Flash presentation of 15 works, including de Kooning's Gansevoort Street, 1949-51
(click "explore 15 works" when you get past the intro)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing
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