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- De Kooning died on February 1, 1989 in Southampton, NY. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, among others.
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Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning (/ də ˈkuːnɪŋ / də KOO-ning, [2] Dutch: [də ˈkoːnɪŋ]; née Fried; March 12, 1918 [1] – February 1, 1989 [3]) was an Abstract Expressionist and Figurative Expressionist painter in the post-World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period [4] and was an editorial associate for Art ...
Jul 26, 2022 · Thanks to Byrne’s efforts, the proof now lives in a sign visible to all who pass by. Her East Hampton house and studio was recently designated a historic place by the National Park Service.
May 8, 2015 · A new image of Elaine de Kooning is emerging. Born in 1918, Elaine Fried grew up the eldest of four in a modest Brooklyn home, with an Irish Catholic mother and a Protestant father.
- Childhood and Education
- The Union Years
- Elaine Meets Willem de Kooning
- Elaine and Bill Grow Apart
- Painting, Writing, and Teaching
- Late Years and Death
- The Legacy of Elaine de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning was born Elaine Marie Catherine Fried in 1918 (although she would later claim her birth year was 1920) to Marie and Charles Frank Fried, a plant manager for the Bond Bread Company in Brooklyn, New York. She was the first of four children, and they lived in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. Elaine's younger sister, Marjo...
While attending classes at the Leonardo da Vinci School, de Kooning became politically active, representing the school at meetings of the leftist John Reed Club. At these meetings she attempted to organize students into a new auxiliary union for artists, simply called the Artists' Union. It was also at the John Reed Club meetings where she met arti...
In the autumn of 1938, Robert Jonas introduced her to the 34-year-old Dutch emigre Willem (Bill) de Kooning, but there is little evidence to suggest any romantic connection at their initial meeting. Elaine was living with Resnick at the time, who had supposedly commented once to her, "Bill is going to be the greatest painter in the country." Shortl...
Elaine and Bill grew increasingly distant from one another early in their marriage. After he rented his own studio space on 4th Avenue, Bill began to spend increasing amounts of time with other artists in the neighborhood, including Franz Kline, Conrad Marca-Relli, and John Ferren. Through their friends Rudy Burckhardt and the dance critic Edwin De...
Throughout the 1940s, de Kooning concentrated on portraiture. She made many striking self-portraits and recalled some of the earliest painting lessons learned from Bill, "Everything was a matter of tension between objects or edges and space." Her early self-portraits depict her in her studio, seated with sketchbook in hand, surrounding by the objec...
Following the assassination of President Kennedy, de Kooning stopped painting for a year and took a teaching appointment at the University of California, Davis. Beginning in the mid-1960s, de Kooning became more prolific than ever as a teacher, teaching at universities and colleges across the country, including Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon Univ...
With an exhibition of her portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D. C., in 2015 and with the inclusion of several of her paintings in the 2016 Denver Art Museum exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism, fortunately Elaine de Kooning's legacy has received increased attention in recent years. Her large, colorful, gestural works o...
- American
- March 12, 1918
- Brooklyn, New York
- February 1, 1989
When artist Elaine de Kooning produced a painting for the Harry S. Truman Library, she said it was “not a portrait of John F. Kennedy but a glimpse.” Less than two years after John F. Kennedy ...
Now, return visitors as well as newcomers can view this untraditional likeness of our nation’s thirty-fifth president in a major exhibition, “ Elaine de Kooning: Portraits,” opening today, March 13. Seen among the sixty-six works in the exhibition, it reaffirms the artist’s uncanny ability to capture the gesture, pose, and spirit of her subjects.
De Kooning died on February 1, 1989 in Southampton, NY. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, among others.
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