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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
19 works online when last checked
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)
Willem de Kooning at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
11 works by Willem de Kooning
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
Untitled, 1958
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Untitled, 1958
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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
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
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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
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
Willem de Kooning in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
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
Willem de Kooning at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
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
Willem de Kooning at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Singing Women, 1966
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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
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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)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(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)
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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: NEW!
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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
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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
Time Magazine
"Painting's Vocabulary Builder", 1984 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Slap and Twist", 1972 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"The Painter as Draftsman", 1974 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Seeing the Face in the Fire", 1994 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Desire at Full Stretch", 1997 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Softer De Koonings", 1978 article by Robert Hughes
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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