Special Exhibitions

Floor 6

Oil on paper mounted on board
25 1/4 x 18 1/2" (64.1 x 47 cm)
Frame: 34 x 27 x 2"( 86.4 x 68.6 x 5.1 cm)
Private Collection, NY
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Self-Portrait. 1947
North Gallery
Oil and charcoal on paper mounted on fiberboard
24 3/8 x 36 3/16" (61.9 x 91.9 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Insitution, Washington D.C
Gift of Joseph H. Hirschhorn
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Secretary. 1948
North Gallery
Oil on canvas
81 x 100" (205.7 x 254 cm)
The Art Institute of Chicago
Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, Gift of Edgar J. Kaurfmann, Jr. and Mr and Mrs. Noah Goldowsky Jr. 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Excavation. 1950
North Gallery
Oil and  charcoal on fiberboard
46 1/8 x 27 5/8" (117.2 x 70.2 cm)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C
Gift from Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966 F 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Queen of Hearts. 1943-46
North Gallery
Introduction to the exhibition de Kooning: A Retrospective
North Gallery
Oil, enamel, and charcoal on canvas
60 x 47 7/8" (152.4 x 121.6 cm)
Private Collection
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Woman. 1949
North Gallery
Enamel and oil on canvas
42 5/8 x 56 1/8" (108.3 x 142.5 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Painting. 1948
North Gallery
Oil on fiberboard
48 x 48" (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C
Gift from the Vincent Melzac Collection 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. The Wave. 1942-44
North Gallery
Oil and enamel on fiberboard
53 3/8 x 44 5/8" (136.2 x 113.3 cm)
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithosian Institute, Washington D.C
Gift of Joshep H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Woman. 1948
North Gallery
Oil on composition board 
31 1/4 x 52 1/2" (79.4 x 133.4cm) 
Private Collection 
The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Summer Couch. 1943
North Gallery
Charcoal and oil on vellum
59 15/16 x 42 1/2" (152.2 x 108 cm)
Private collection
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. [No Title]. c.1970-74
South Gallery
Oil and charcoal on wood
80 x 36" (203.2 x 91.4 cm) 
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.  
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Woman, Sag Harbor. 1964
South Gallery
Oil and graphite on paper mounted on masonite 
19 5/8 x 14 5/8" (49.8 x 37.1 cm)  
Private collection, courtesy Timothy Taylor Gallery  
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Clam Diggers. 1963
South Gallery
Oil on canvas
80 x 70" (203.2 x 177.8 cm)
Frame: 81 5/8 x 71 7/8" (207.3 x 182.6 cm) 
Private Collection
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Park Rosenberg. 1957
South Gallery
Oil on canvas
76 3/4 x 87 3/4" (195 x 222.9 cm)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. ...Whose Name Was Writ in Water. 1975
South Gallery
Calcimine and charcoal on canvas 
182 x 210" (462.3 x 533.4 cm) 
The Allan Stone Collection 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Backdrop for Labyrinth. 1946
South Gallery
Oil and newspaper transfer on canvas
96 x 74" (243.8 x 188cm)
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Easter Monday. 1955-56
South Gallery
Oil and newspaper transfer on canvas
96 x 74" (243.8 x 188cm)
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Technique for Easter Monday
South Gallery
Willem de Kooning. Montauk I. 1969. Oil on canvas, 88 x 77" (223.5 x 195.6 cm). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. © 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Montauk I. 1969
South Gallery
Lithograph
composition (irreg.): 50 3/4 x 36" (128.9 x 91.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 57 1/2 x 37"
(146 x 94 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Lee V. Eastman and John L.
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Wah Kee Spare Ribs. 1970, published 1971
South Gallery
Willem de Kooning. Pirate (Untitled II). 1981. Oil on canvas. 88 x 76 3/4". The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection Fund. © 1997 Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Willem de Kooning. Pirate (Untitled II). 1981
South Gallery
Oil and charcoal on canvas
40x 50" (101.6 x 127 cm)
Private Collection
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Two Women. 1954-55
South Gallery
1972 
Bronze 
59 1/2 x 29 5/8 x 23 3/4" (151.1 x 75.2 x 60.3 cm) 
Private collection 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Clamdigger. 1972
South Gallery
Oil on canvas
77 x 88" (195.6 x 223.5 cm) 
Private collection 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. [No title]. 1985
South Gallery
Oil on canvas 
70" x 6' 8" (177.8 x 203.2 cm) 
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase and gift of Milly and Arnold 
Glimcher 
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Rider (Untitled VII). 1985
South Gallery
Oil on canvas
59 x 43" (149.9 x 109.3  cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller
© 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Willem de Kooning. Woman II. 1952
South Gallery
Willem de Kooning
Woman I
1950-52
Willem de Kooning. Woman I. 1950-2
South Gallery
Willem de Kooning. Weekend at Mr. and Mrs. Krisher. 1970. Lithograph, 42 7/16 x 30" (107.9 x 76.2 cm). Publisher: Knoedler, New York. Printer: Hollanders Workshop, New York. Edition 75. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Lee V. Eastman and John L. Eastman, 1971
Willem de Kooning. Weekend at Mr. and Mrs. Krisher. 1970, published 1971
South Gallery