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unusual facts about Kooning


Arthur Tashko

As a cubist painter he exposed his art works in Vienna, Austria together with Picasso, Leger, Delaunay, Jean Arp and after a period he met with abstract expressionists Pollock, Kooning, Rothko.


Carrie Moyer

Moyer has been awarded numerous grants, awards and residencies including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and an Anonymous Was A Woman Award (both 2009), Creative Capital Grant (2000), Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship (1999), Peter Norton Family Foundation Project Grant (1999) and the National Studio Program at PS1/Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (1996).

De Kooning: An American Master

Often compared to Jackson Pollock and Arshile Gorky, de Kooning was considered one of the more inspirational and influential artists of the 20th century.

de Kooning: An American Master is a biography of Dutch American painter Willem de Kooning, a prominent figure in the American movement of abstract expressionism in the thirties and forties.


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