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Willem de Kooning (Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1904 - 1997, East Hampton, NY)

Woman

1949-1950

Object Type: Painting

Medium and Support: oil on canvas

Credit Line: Lena Kernodle McDuffie memorial purchase, 1954

Accession Number: 1954.1211

Dimensions: 64 1/8 x 46 in.

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Nude

Exhibition List

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

1950 Whitney Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY , 11/10/1950 - 12/31/1950
Willem de Kooning Egan Gallery, New York, NY , 4/1/1951 - 4/30/1951
9th St. Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture 60 East 9th St., New York, NY , 5/21/1951 - 6/10/1951
Contemporary American Painting Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL , 3/2/1952 - 4/13/1952
Willem de Kooning: Paintings on the Theme of the Woman" Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY , 3/16/1953 - 4/11/1953
The New York School Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA , 8/12/1954 - 11/7/1954
Unknown (Washington and Lee Univ., 1955) Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA , 2/1/1955 - 3/15/1955
Unknown (Univ. of Colorado, 1955) University of Colorado, Boulder , 6/15/1955 - 8/30/1955
Inaugural Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC , 4/6/1956 - 9/1/1956
Unknown (1957, Univ. of KY) University of Kentucky, Lexington , 4/4/1957 - 4/19/1957
Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture from American Colleges and Universities, Inaugural Exhibition Ackland Art Museum, UNC Chapel Hill , 9/20/1958 - 10/20/1958
New Images of Man Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY , 9/29/1959 - 2/7/1960
Art From Ingres to Pollock: Painting and Sculpture Since Neoclassicism University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley , 3/5/1960 - 4/2/1960
The Emerging Figure Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX , 5/31/1961 - 6/18/1961
Greensboro Collectors Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 1/20/1963 - 2/10/1963
Ascendancy of American Painting Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC , 4/3/1963 - 6/2/1963
Unknown (Winthrop College, 1963) Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC , 9/29/1963 - 11/3/1963
Art Since 1889 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , 10/20/1964 - 11/15/1964
American Figure Painters Fine Art Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN , 12/1/1965 - 12/31/1965
Two Generations of American Art 1943-1965 Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH , 11/11/1966 - 12/2/1966
Masterpieces from University Collections University of Kentucky, Lexington , 4/9/1967 - 5/10/1967
American Painting: The 1950's American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY , 11/3/1968 - 11/23/1969
Four Contemporary Masters: Giacometti, Dubuffet, DeKooning, Bacon Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Columbia , 5/31/1973 - 11/4/1973
Selections from Major North Carolina Museums Salem Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC , 9/22/1974 - 9/29/1974
A Southern Sampler: American Paintings in Southern Museums Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN , 9/21/1975 - 10/31/1975
America as Art National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , 4/30/1976 - 9/12/1976
Twentieth Century American Paintings on Loan from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC , 12/2/1977 - 1/15/1978
Unknown (Reynolda House, 1978-79) Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC , 12/13/1978 - 3/14/1979
Pittsburgh International Series: Willem De Kooning Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh , 10/26/1979 - 1/6/1980
American Figure Painting: 1950-1980 Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA , 10/16/1980 - 11/30/1980
Amerikanische Malerei, 1930-1980 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY , 11/14/1981 - 1/31/1982
Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY , 12/14/1983 - 9/24/1984
Biennale of Sydney 1988 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia , 5/18/1988 - 9/18/1988
Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA , 7/15/1988 - 5/15/1989
Art in Europe and America: The 1950's and 1960's Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH , 2/16/1990 - 4/22/1990
Changing Perceptions. The Evolution of Twentieth Century American Art Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 9/23/1990 - 11/11/1990
The Postwar Spirit Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 9/23/1990 - 12/31/1990
Collection Highlights (Winter/Spring 1991) Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 1/1/1991 - 6/1/1991
Willem de Kooning: An Exhibition of Important Paintings and Works on Paper , 1/3/1991 - 2/9/1991
Willem de Kooning: Paintings National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC , 5/8/1994 - 5/7/1995
Collection Highlights (Winter '95 - Winter '97) Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 12/1/1995 - 2/19/1997
Collection Highlights (Fall 1997) Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 9/1/1997 - 11/1/1997
Collection Highlights (Summer/Fall 2000) Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 6/19/2000 - 1/1/2001
Faces and Figures: Selections from the Permanent Collection Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 4/7/2002 - 7/21/2002
American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1900-1960 Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 8/17/2003 - 1/18/2004
American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1900-1960 Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 7/11/2004 - 1/2/2005
American Art 1900-1960: Selections from the Permanent Collection Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 7/17/2005 - 10/23/2005
Figured/In: Representing the Human Form Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro , 7/9/2006 - 11/5/2006
The Liberated Eye: American Modernisms Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro , 7/22/2007 - 11/25/2007
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art , 1940-1976 Jewish Museum, New York, NY , 5/4/2008 - 9/21/2008
Cool, Collected and In Context Weatherspoon Art Museum , 2/22/2009 - 5/3/2009
American Art, 1900-1960: Shifting Directions Weatherspoon Art Museum , 8/9/2009 - 11/29/2009
Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting Weatherspoon Art Museum , 2/6/2011 - 5/1/2011
de Kooning: A Retrospective Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY , 9/18/2011 - 1/9/2012
On the Path to Abstraction: Highlights of the Permanent Collection Weatherspoon Art Museum , 9/1/2012 - 2/10/2013
Innovations in Painting: Selections from the Collection Weatherspoon Art Museum , 10/25/2014 - 2/15/2015
De Kooning in Company Weatherspoon Art Museum , 2/13/2016 - 6/12/2016
Abstract Expressionism Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom , 9/24/2016 - 1/2/2017
Here We Are: Painting and Sculpting the Human Form Weatherspoon Art Museum , 3/9/2019 - 10/20/2019
Slow Looking/Deep Seeing Weatherspoon Art Museum , 1/16/2021 - 6/19/2021

Bibliography List

This object has the following bibliographic references:

John Elderfield. de Kooning: A Retrospective The Museum of Modern Art. 2011
Page Number: pp. 201-204, p. 242
Bram Dijkstra. Naked: The Nude in America Rizzoli. 2010-10-26
Page Number: pp. 126-127
Olivier Weber-Caflisch. Antonio Saura. Die Retrospektive Hatje Cantz, Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstmuseum. 2012
Page Number: illus. p. 20, credit p. 308
Judith Zilczer. A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning Phaidon Press. London; New York, 2014-05
Page Number: p. 95, cat # 106
David Anfam and Susan Davidson. Abstract Expressionism 2016-11-08
Nancy Doll and Elaine Gustafson. Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2010
Page Number: p. 85
Norman Kleeblatt. Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976 Yale University Press. New Haven, CT, 2008
Page Number: p. 60, plate 17, p. 280
Unknown. "Reviews of reviews: Action/Abstraction" (The Week) The Week. 2008-05-23
Page Number: p. 21
Lance Esplund. "America's Artistic Triumph" (The New York Sun) The New York Sun. New York, NY, 2008-05-08
Dawn DeCwikiel Kane. "More than a 'Woman' Willem de Kooning's abstract painting is an icon" (Greensboro News and Record) Greensboro News and Record. Greensboro, NC, 2008-05-18
Page Number: D1, D2
Roberta Smith. "Rivalry Played Out on Canvas and Page" (The New York Times) The New York Times. New York, NY, 2008-05-02
University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting Urbana: College of Fine and Applied Arts. Urbana, IL
Page Number: plate 14
Will South. Gregory D. Ivy: Making North Carolina Modern Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum. 2005
Page Number: fig. 22, p. 52
Unknown. Greensboro Collectors Greensboro NC: Weatherspoon Art Gallery. 1963
Page Number: cat. #55
Ann Grimaldi. Weatherspoon Visitor Guide Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum. 2005
Page Number: unpaginated
Will South. WAM Gallery Guide: American Art. Selections from the Permanent Collection 1900-1960 Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum. 2003
Page Number: cover
Biennale of Sydney (7th: 1988). 1988 Australian Biennale: From the Southern Cross. A View of World Art c. 1940-88 Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1988
Page Number: pp. 106-7, 277
Unknown. "De Kooning Art To Go On Tour" (Greensboro Daily News) Greensboro Daily News. 1973-01-21
Page Number: E12
Joshua C. Taylor. America as Art Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution Press. 1976
Page Number: p. 272
Thomas B. Hess. Willem de Kooning New York: Museum of Modern Art. 1969
Page Number: p. 73
Thomas W. Styron. American Figure Painting: 1950-1980 Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum. 1980
Page Number: p. 12
Pace Gallery, New York, NY. Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet. The Women New York: The Pace Gallery. 1990
Page Number: p. 21, fig. 8
Marika Herskovic. New York School. Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists Franklin Lakes, NJ: New York School Press. 2000
Page Number: p. 13, 107
Giles Lambertson. "Don't Leave Art to the Artists" (The Greensboro Record) The Greensboro Record. 1982-03-24
Page Number: A6
Unknown. "West German Exhibit Features De Kooning Painting" (Greensboro News and Record) Greensboro News and Record. 1981-11-08
Page Number: F6
Steve Gilliam. "A Great Gallery Grows" (Greensboro Magazine) Greensboro Magazine. 1977-12
Page Number: p. 24
David Sylvester. "The Birth of 'Woman I'" (Burlington Magazine) Burlington Magazine. 1995-04
Page Number: p. 229, fig. 11
Diane Waldman. Willem de Kooning New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1988
Page Number: fig. 59
Bill Berkson and Rackstraw Downes. "Willem de Kooning, On His Eighty-Fifth Birthday" (Art Journal) Art Journal. 1989-Fall
Page Number: p. 214
Mary Ann Marger. "Thinking in the Abstract" (St. Petersburg Times) St. Petersburg Times. 1990-05-07
Page Number: 1D
William C. Seitz. "Spirit, Time and "Abstract Expressionism"" (Magazine of Art) Magazine of Art. 1953-02
Page Number: p. 87
Bruce Altshuler. The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1994
Page Number: p. 160
William C. Seitz. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press for the National Gallery of Art. 1983
Page Number: fig. 33
Gabriella Drudi. Willem de Kooning Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori. 1972
Page Number: cat. #53
Peter Selz. New Images of Man New York: Museum of Modern Art. 1959
Page Number: p. 88
Judith Zilczer. Willem de Kooning Colleccio Hirshhorn Museum Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundacio 'La Caixa'. 1994
Page Number: p. 43, fig. 17
Judith Zilczer. Willem de Kooning from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in association with Rizzoli International Publications. 1993
Page Number: p. 40, fig. 19
Harold Rosenberg. De Kooning New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. 1974
Page Number: pl. 76
Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH. Art in Europe and America: The 1950's and 1960's. Gallery Guide Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Visual Arts. 1990
Page Number: p. 9
Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH. Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America New York: Rizzoli International. 1991
Page Number: p. 12
Chuck Twardy. "Willem de Kooning. In the Mind's Eye" (Raleigh News & Observer) Raleigh News & Observer. 1994-05-15
Page Number: p. 3G
Paul Branch. "De Kooning's Changes of Season" (Art in America) Art in America. 1995-01
Page Number: p. 70
Carter Ratcliff. "The Past Undone: Willem de Kooning" (Art in America) Art in America. 1984(summ)
Page Number: p. 118
UNCG News Bureau. "Bicentennial Show: Exhibit Picks UNC-G's 'Woman'" (The Greensboro Record) The Greensboro Record. 1975-12-06
Page Number: p. A7
Jacqueline M. Humphrey. "The Art of De Kooning - From His 'Woman' Series" (Greensboro Daily News) Greensboro Daily News. 1972-10-15
Page Number: E12
Edward Bryant. "The Boom in U.S. University Museums" (Art News) Art News. 1967-09
Page Number: p. 36
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC. Twentieth Century American Paintings on Loan from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery Winston-Salem, NC: Reynolda House Museum of American Art. 1977
Page Number: unpaginated
American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY and Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA. American Painting: The 1950's New York: The American Federation of Arts. 1968
Page Number: cat. #6
William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center. Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture from American Colleges and Universities, Inaugural Exhibition Chapel Hill, NC: The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Center. 1958
Page Number: cat. #88
Marla Prather and Richard Schiff. Willem de Kooning: Paintings New Haven and London: Yale University Press and the National Gallery of Art. 1994
Page Number: cat. #26, p. 93
Tom Armstrong. Amerikanische Malerei, 1930-1980 Munich: Prestel-Verlag. 1981
Page Number: cat. #157
Fine Art Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. American Figure Painters West Lafayette IN: Fine Art Gallery, Purdue University. 1965
Page Number: unpaginated
University of Kentucky Art Gallery. Masterpieces from University Collections Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Art Gallery. 1967
Page Number: unpaginated
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Columbia. Giacometti, Dubuffet, DeKooning, Bacon Bogota, Columbia: Museo de Arte Moderno. 1973
Page Number: unpaginated
Matthew Baigell. Two Generations of American Art 1943-1965 Columbus OH: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University. 1966
Page Number: cat. #3
Will South. WAM Gallery Guide: Faces and Figures: Selections from the Permanent Collection Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum. 2002
Page Number: cat. #7
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Willem de Kooning. Pittsburgh International Series Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. 1979
Page Number: cat. #18
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC. Ascendancy of American Painting Columbia, SC: Columbia Museum of Art. 1963
Page Number: cat. #19
Claire Stoullig and Catherine Bompius. Willem de Kooning Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou. 1984
Paul Cummings and Jorn Merkert. Willem de Kooning: Retrospektive Munich: Prestel-Verlag and Berlin: Akademie der Kunste. 1984
Paul Cummings. Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture Munich: Prestel-Verlag and NY: Whitney Museum. 1983
Page Number: cat. #183
Paul Schimmel and Judith E. Stein. Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism Newport Beach CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum. 1988
Page Number: p. 73, #12
University of New Mexico, University Art Gallery. Art Since 1889 Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1964
Page Number: cat. #28
Will South. WAM Gallery Guide: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Gallery. 2000
Page Number: unpaginated
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN. A Southern Sampler: American Paintings in Southern Museums Chattanooga TN: Hunter Museum of Art. 1975
Page Number: p. 17
Ruth K. Beesch. Changing Perceptions. The Evolution of Twentieth Century American Art Greensboro, NC: University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 1990
Page Number: pp. 58-9
Robert De Niro, Jr.. Robert De Niro, Sr.: Paintings, Writings, and Drawings: 1942-1993 Rizzoli Electa. 2019
Page Number: 112, Figure Number: 4

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