short biography

Willem de Kooning (b. 1904, Rotterdam/Netherlands; d. 1997, East Hampton, Long Island) was an abstract expressionist artist and together with Jackson Pollock a pioneer of action painting.

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collection/s

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Art Gallery NSW, Sydney Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Ca la Ghironda, Bologna Centro José Guerrero, Granada Cleveland Museum of Art Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit Daros Latinamerica, Zürich Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Legion of Honor / De Young Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Udine Grey Art Museum, New York Guggenheim Bilbao Harvard Art Museums — Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Arthur M. Sackler, Carpenter ° Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Honolulu Museum of Art Katzen Arts Center, Washington ° Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art LUDWIGMUSEUM Koblenz MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York MUMOK Wien Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis Minneapolis Institute of Arts Monsoon Art Collection, London Museo Botero, Bogota Museo Tamayo, Mexico City ° Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase Palm Springs Art Museum Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Princeton University Art Museum Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park Rose Art Museum, Waltham Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Zürich Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville Sculpture International Rotterdam Seattle Art Museum Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln Smithsonian American Art Museum & Renwick Gallery (SAAM) Smithsonian Institution, Washington Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo UBS Art Gallery, New York University Art Museum, Albany University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown . Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven kunsthalle weishaupt, Ulm
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