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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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
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1950 Whitney Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
, 11/10/1950 - 12/31/1950
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Willem de Kooning
Egan Gallery, New York, NY
, 4/1/1951 - 4/30/1951
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9th St. Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
60 East 9th St., New York, NY
, 5/21/1951 - 6/10/1951
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Contemporary American Painting
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
, 3/2/1952 - 4/13/1952
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Willem de Kooning: Paintings on the Theme of the Woman"
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
, 3/16/1953 - 4/11/1953
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The New York School
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
, 8/12/1954 - 11/7/1954
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Unknown (Washington and Lee Univ., 1955)
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
, 2/1/1955 - 3/15/1955
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Unknown (Univ. of Colorado, 1955)
University of Colorado, Boulder
, 6/15/1955 - 8/30/1955
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Inaugural Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
, 4/6/1956 - 9/1/1956
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Unknown (1957, Univ. of KY)
University of Kentucky, Lexington
, 4/4/1957 - 4/19/1957
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Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture from American Colleges and Universities, Inaugural Exhibition
Ackland Art Museum, UNC Chapel Hill
, 9/20/1958 - 10/20/1958
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New Images of Man
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
, 9/29/1959 - 2/7/1960
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Art From Ingres to Pollock: Painting and Sculpture Since Neoclassicism
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
, 3/5/1960 - 4/2/1960
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The Emerging Figure
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
, 5/31/1961 - 6/18/1961
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Greensboro Collectors
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 1/20/1963 - 2/10/1963
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Ascendancy of American Painting
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
, 4/3/1963 - 6/2/1963
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Unknown (Winthrop College, 1963)
Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC
, 9/29/1963 - 11/3/1963
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Art Since 1889
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
, 10/20/1964 - 11/15/1964
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American Figure Painters
Fine Art Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
, 12/1/1965 - 12/31/1965
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Two Generations of American Art 1943-1965
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH
, 11/11/1966 - 12/2/1966
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Masterpieces from University Collections
University of Kentucky, Lexington
, 4/9/1967 - 5/10/1967
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American Painting: The 1950's
American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY
, 11/3/1968 - 11/23/1969
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Four Contemporary Masters: Giacometti, Dubuffet, DeKooning, Bacon
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Columbia
, 5/31/1973 - 11/4/1973
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Selections from Major North Carolina Museums
Salem Fine Arts Center, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
, 9/22/1974 - 9/29/1974
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A Southern Sampler: American Paintings in Southern Museums
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
, 9/21/1975 - 10/31/1975
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America as Art
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
, 4/30/1976 - 9/12/1976
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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
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Unknown (Reynolda House, 1978-79)
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC
, 12/13/1978 - 3/14/1979
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Pittsburgh International Series: Willem De Kooning
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
, 10/26/1979 - 1/6/1980
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American Figure Painting: 1950-1980
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
, 10/16/1980 - 11/30/1980
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Amerikanische Malerei, 1930-1980
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
, 11/14/1981 - 1/31/1982
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Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
, 12/14/1983 - 9/24/1984
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Biennale of Sydney 1988
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
, 5/18/1988 - 9/18/1988
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Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
, 7/15/1988 - 5/15/1989
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Art in Europe and America: The 1950's and 1960's
Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH
, 2/16/1990 - 4/22/1990
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Changing Perceptions. The Evolution of Twentieth Century American Art
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 9/23/1990 - 11/11/1990
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The Postwar Spirit
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 9/23/1990 - 12/31/1990
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Collection Highlights (Winter/Spring 1991)
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 1/1/1991 - 6/1/1991
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Willem de Kooning: An Exhibition of Important Paintings and Works on Paper
, 1/3/1991 - 2/9/1991
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Willem de Kooning: Paintings
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
, 5/8/1994 - 5/7/1995
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Collection Highlights (Winter '95 - Winter '97)
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 12/1/1995 - 2/19/1997
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Collection Highlights (Fall 1997)
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 9/1/1997 - 11/1/1997
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Collection Highlights (Summer/Fall 2000)
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 6/19/2000 - 1/1/2001
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Faces and Figures: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 4/7/2002 - 7/21/2002
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American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1900-1960
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 8/17/2003 - 1/18/2004
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American Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1900-1960
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 7/11/2004 - 1/2/2005
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American Art 1900-1960: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 7/17/2005 - 10/23/2005
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Figured/In: Representing the Human Form
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 7/9/2006 - 11/5/2006
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The Liberated Eye: American Modernisms
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
, 7/22/2007 - 11/25/2007
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Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art , 1940-1976
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
, 5/4/2008 - 9/21/2008
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Cool, Collected and In Context
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 2/22/2009 - 5/3/2009
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American Art, 1900-1960: Shifting Directions
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 8/9/2009 - 11/29/2009
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Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 2/6/2011 - 5/1/2011
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de Kooning: A Retrospective
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
, 9/18/2011 - 1/9/2012
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On the Path to Abstraction: Highlights of the Permanent Collection
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 9/1/2012 - 2/10/2013
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Innovations in Painting: Selections from the Collection
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 10/25/2014 - 2/15/2015
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De Kooning in Company
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 2/13/2016 - 6/12/2016
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Abstract Expressionism
Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
, 9/24/2016 - 1/2/2017
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Here We Are: Painting and Sculpting the Human Form
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 3/9/2019 - 10/20/2019
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Slow Looking/Deep Seeing
Weatherspoon Art Museum
, 1/16/2021 - 6/19/2021
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Making Room: Familiar Art, New Stories
Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro
, 4/24/2023 - 4/6/2024
Bibliography List
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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John Elderfield.
de Kooning: A Retrospective
The Museum of Modern Art.
2011
Page Number: pp. 201-204, p. 242
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Bram Dijkstra.
Naked: The Nude in America
Rizzoli.
2010-10-26
Page Number: pp. 126-127
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Olivier Weber-Caflisch.
Antonio Saura. Die Retrospektive
Hatje Cantz, Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstmuseum.
2012
Page Number: illus. p. 20, credit p. 308
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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
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David Anfam
and Susan Davidson.
Abstract Expressionism
2016-11-08
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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
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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
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Unknown.
"Reviews of reviews: Action/Abstraction" (The Week)
The Week.
2008-05-23
Page Number: p. 21
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Lance Esplund.
"America's Artistic Triumph" (The New York Sun)
The New York Sun.
New York, NY, 2008-05-08
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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
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Roberta Smith.
"Rivalry Played Out on Canvas and Page" (The New York Times)
The New York Times.
New York, NY, 2008-05-02
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University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting
Urbana: College of Fine and Applied Arts.
Urbana, IL
Page Number: plate 14
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Will South.
Gregory D. Ivy: Making North Carolina Modern
Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum.
2005
Page Number: fig. 22, p. 52
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Unknown.
Greensboro Collectors
Greensboro NC: Weatherspoon Art Gallery.
1963
Page Number: cat. #55
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Ann Grimaldi.
Weatherspoon Visitor Guide
Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum.
2005
Page Number: unpaginated
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Will South.
WAM Gallery Guide: American Art. Selections from the Permanent Collection 1900-1960
Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum.
2003
Page Number: cover
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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
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Unknown.
"De Kooning Art To Go On Tour" (Greensboro Daily News)
Greensboro Daily News.
1973-01-21
Page Number: E12
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Joshua C. Taylor.
America as Art
Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution Press.
1976
Page Number: p. 272
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Thomas B. Hess.
Willem de Kooning
New York: Museum of Modern Art.
1969
Page Number: p. 73
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Thomas W. Styron.
American Figure Painting: 1950-1980
Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum.
1980
Page Number: p. 12
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Pace Gallery, New York, NY.
Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet. The Women
New York: The Pace Gallery.
1990
Page Number: p. 21, fig. 8
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Marika Herskovic.
New York School. Abstract Expressionists: Artists Choice by Artists
Franklin Lakes, NJ: New York School Press.
2000
Page Number: p. 13, 107
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Giles Lambertson.
"Don't Leave Art to the Artists" (The Greensboro Record)
The Greensboro Record.
1982-03-24
Page Number: A6
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Unknown.
"West German Exhibit Features De Kooning Painting" (Greensboro News and Record)
Greensboro News and Record.
1981-11-08
Page Number: F6
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Steve Gilliam.
"A Great Gallery Grows" (Greensboro Magazine)
Greensboro Magazine.
1977-12
Page Number: p. 24
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David Sylvester.
"The Birth of 'Woman I'" (Burlington Magazine)
Burlington Magazine.
1995-04
Page Number: p. 229, fig. 11
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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
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Bill Berkson
and Rackstraw Downes.
"Willem de Kooning, On His Eighty-Fifth Birthday" (Art Journal)
Art Journal.
1989-Fall
Page Number: p. 214
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Mary Ann Marger.
"Thinking in the Abstract" (St. Petersburg Times)
St. Petersburg Times.
1990-05-07
Page Number: 1D
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William C. Seitz.
"Spirit, Time and "Abstract Expressionism"" (Magazine of Art)
Magazine of Art.
1953-02
Page Number: p. 87
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Bruce Altshuler.
The Avant-Garde in Exhibition
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc..
1994
Page Number: p. 160
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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
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Gabriella Drudi.
Willem de Kooning
Milano: Fratelli Fabbri Editori.
1972
Page Number: cat. #53
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Peter Selz.
New Images of Man
New York: Museum of Modern Art.
1959
Page Number: p. 88
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Judith Zilczer.
Willem de Kooning Colleccio Hirshhorn Museum
Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundacio 'La Caixa'.
1994
Page Number: p. 43, fig. 17
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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
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Harold Rosenberg.
De Kooning
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc..
1974
Page Number: pl. 76
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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
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Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH.
Breakthroughs: Avant-Garde Artists in Europe and America
New York: Rizzoli International.
1991
Page Number: p. 12
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Chuck Twardy.
"Willem de Kooning. In the Mind's Eye" (Raleigh News & Observer)
Raleigh News & Observer.
1994-05-15
Page Number: p. 3G
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Paul Branch.
"De Kooning's Changes of Season" (Art in America)
Art in America.
1995-01
Page Number: p. 70
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Carter Ratcliff.
"The Past Undone: Willem de Kooning" (Art in America)
Art in America.
1984(summ)
Page Number: p. 118
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UNCG News Bureau.
"Bicentennial Show: Exhibit Picks UNC-G's 'Woman'" (The Greensboro Record)
The Greensboro Record.
1975-12-06
Page Number: p. A7
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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