wildbrush's art.to.day - willem de kooning 2

[ home · entrance · contact · about me · what's new · fine art · digital art · cd cover · darkroom · photography · sculptures ] [ back to articles about 'abstract expressionism': 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 ] [ back to artists listing 'abstract expressionism' ]

wildbrush's art.to.day

• Willem De Kooning - 2 -

	1951	First Prize, "International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting," Carnegie Institute. Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Solo show, Egan Gallery, New York. Included, 'Ben Shahn, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock,' Arts Club of Chicago; 'Abstract Painting and Sculpture in American,' Museum of Modern Art; 'First Sao Paulo Bienal,"' organized by International Council, Museum of Modern Art; Logan Medal and purchase prize, "Sixtieth Annual American Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago.
	1952	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art.
	1953	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Included, 'Sao Paulo Bienal,' organized by International Council, Museum of Modern Art. Solo show, Sidney Janis Gallery.; also 1956, 1959, 1962, 1972. First retrospective. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
	1954	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. De Kooning and each of the following have solo show: Ben Shahn, Ibram Lassaw, Gaston Lachaise, David Smith, 'XXVII Venice Biennale,' organized by Museum of Modern Art. Included, 'Younger American Painters,' Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
	1955	Included, 'International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,' Carnegie Institute. Solo show, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Included, 'The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors,' Whitney Museum of American Art.
	1956	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Included, 'International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,' Carnegie Institute. Included, 'XXVIII Venice Biennale,' organized by Art Institute of Chicago. Solo show, Sidney Janis Gallery.
	1957	First graphic prints. Solo show, Leo Castelli Gallery. Included, 'American Paintings: 1955-1957,' Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
	1958	Rauschenberg did an etching from one of de Kooning's drawings. Included, 'International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,' Carnegie Institute. Included, "Nature in Abstraction," Whitney Museum of American Art, circulated nationally. 1958-1959 'The New American Painting,' organized and circulated by International Council, Museum of Modern Art, to Switzerland, Italy, Spain, West Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, England and finally, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
	1959	Participation in documenta 2 Kassel. Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Solo show, Sidney Janis Gallery. Included, 'New Images of Man,' Museum of Modern Art.
	1960	Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters.
	1961	Included, 'International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,' Carnegie Institute. Solo show, Paul Kantor Gallery, Beverly Hills, California. Included, 'American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists,' Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
	1962	Solo show, Sidney Janis Gallery. Included, 'American Vanguard,' organized by United States Information Agency; circulated Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia, England. Included, 'Art Since 1950,' Seattle World's Fair, also shown Brandeis University and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. 'International Exhibition,' Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 'Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,' Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D. C. Two-person show with Barnett Newman, Allan Stone Gallery, New York.
	1963	New studio in Springs on Long Island. Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Solo show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York; also 1971. Included, 'Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, '54-'64,' Tate Gallery, London. 'Within the Easel Convention: Sources of Abstract Expressionism,' Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Mass.
	1964	Participation in documenta 3 in Kassel. Included, 'International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,' Carnegie Institute.
	1965	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Included, 'New York School: The First Generation, Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s,' Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
	1967	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Included, 'Two Decades of American Painting,' organized by International Council, Museum of Modern Art; shown in Australia, Japan, India. Included, 'Six peintres americains: Gorky, Kline, de Kooning, Newman, Pollock, Rothko,' M. Knoedler & Cie, Paris.
	1968	Solo show, M. Knoedler & Cie, Paris. 1968-1969 Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, organized by Museum of Modern Art, circulated to Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
	1969	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Solo show, M. Knoedler & Cie, Paris. Solo show, 'XVII Festival dei Due Mondi,"' Spoleto. Included, 'New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970,' Metropolitan Museum of Art. 'Painting in New York, 1944-1969,' Pasadena Art Museum.
	1970	Begins life-size sculpture. Included, 'International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,' Carnegie Institute.
	1971	Solo show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York.
	1972	Included, 'Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting', Whitney Museum of American Art. Solo show, Sidney Janis Gallery. Solo show, Baltimore Museum of Art.
	1974	Solo shows: Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, circulated nationally. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago.
	1975	Founded the Rainbow Foundation, supporting the work of young artists. Awarded Edward MacDowell Medal. Solo shows: Galerie des Arts, Paris; Fourcade-Droll, New York.
	1976	Solo show Fourcade-Droll, New York. Solo show, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; circulated to West Germany, Switzerland, France. Included, 'The Golden Door: Artist Immigrants of America, 1876-1976,' Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution.
	1977	Participation in documenta 2, 3 and 6 in Kassel. Solo show Fourcade-Droll, New York. Circulating solo exhibition of sculpture, painting, drawing, and lithography organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain. Solo show, organized by International Communication Agency of the United States and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; circulated nationally.
	1978	Solo shows: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Hesingen Kaupungin Taidekokoelmat, Helsinki; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
	1981	Retrospective, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York.
	1983-84	Two circulating exhibitions, one of paintings, the other of drawings, organized by Whitney Museum of American Art.
	1986	Solo show Fourcade-Droll, New York.
	1987	Included, 'Abstract Expressionism: the Critical Developments,' Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo.
	1987-88	'Postwar Paintings from Brandeis University'; circulated nationally by the American Federation of Arts.
	1989	In spite of his serious illness, he went on working until his death.
	Beside Pollock, De Kooning is one of the most important Abstract Expressionist painters. de Kooning page 1

'montauk highway', 1958, oil on canvas, 122 x 105 cm (48 x 59 ") [ back to articles about 'abstract expressionism': 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 ] [ back to artists listing 'abstract expressionism' ]