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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.
| | - Willem de Kooning, in a BBC TV interview, 1963 |
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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
3 works by Willem de Kooning online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Untitled (Two Women)
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
Attic, 1949 (Zoom)
Woman, 1944 (Zoom)
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
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
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, New York City NEW!
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
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
Indiana State University Art Collection NEW!
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
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) 
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California NEW!
Dedication (To Joseph H. Hirshhorn), charcoal on paper, 1970
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Black Friday, 1948
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Two trees on Mary Street... Amen!, 1975
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Untitled XXII, 1983
Seattle Art Museum
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 NEW!
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City NEW!
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
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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
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
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
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
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
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
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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