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At one time, it was very daring to make a figure red or blue - I think now that it is just as daring to make it flesh-colored.
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Original works by Willem de Kooning available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
3 works by Willem de Kooning online
Willem de Kooning at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Untitled (Two Women)
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Attic, 1949 (Zoom)
Woman, 1944 (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
2 paintings online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Night, 1948
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
9 works by Willem de Kooning online
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
4 works by 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
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
Untitled XXII, 1982
Woman, 1950
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online
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
Untitled D99
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3 prints online
Arts on the Point Sculpture Park, Boston
Reclining Figure
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
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
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
Untitled II, 1979
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Woman Springs, 1966
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Untitled
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Biography and selected works
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Untitled (Woman), 1971
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Untitled, 1977
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Saturday Night, 1956
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Untitled (Two Women), 1954
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
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Marilyn Monroe, 1954
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian) 
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Black Friday, 1948
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia NEW!
Two trees on Mary Street... Amen!, 1975
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Untitled XXII, 1983
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Woman
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Willem de Kooning at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Singing Women, 1966
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Turman Gallery at Indiana State University
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
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Willem de Kooning copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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 Art Canvas
(This site is dead, but can be visited via the Internet Wayback Machine)
3 works viewable in the archive
The Halter Collection
4 paintings online
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
Untitled, 1969
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web 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:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Willem de Kooning
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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
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Montauk I, 1969
ARTnews
"De Kooning's Deception"
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Slate Magazine
"Brushed Off: Why Willem de Kooning's late works shouldn't be," article by Alexi Worth
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Woman I, 1950-52
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