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Willem de Kooning

♂  American, born the Netherlands. 1904–1997

Willem de Kooning has been in 43 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1936 and 1989.

43 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition New Horizons in American Art

14 September to 12 October 1936

Stuart Davis, Dorothy C. Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and James Rosenquist, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Paintings from the Museum Collection

23 December 1948 to 13 March 1949

Max Ernst, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America

23 January to 25 March 1951

Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection

19 October 1954 to 6 February 1955

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Selections from the Art Lending Service

5–24 October 1955

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent American Acquisitions

14 March to 30 April 1957

Max Ernst, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Motherwell and Stuart Davis, among others, were involved.

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50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss

23 April to 18 May 1958

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959

28 May to 8 September 1959

Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Dorothy C. Miller and Willem de Kooning, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Images of Man

30 September to 29 November 1959

Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Art of Assemblage

4 October to 12 November 1961

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection

Started 27 May 1964

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers

15 September to 24 October 1964

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings

4 December 1967 to 10 September 1968

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

17 January to 4 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Word and Image: Posters and Typography from the Graphic Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, 1879–1967

25 January to 10 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

18 February to 30 March 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Willem de Kooning

5 March to 26 April 1969

Willem de Kooning and Thomas B. Hess were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

28 May to 1 September 1969

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation

18 June to 5 October 1969

Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky, among others, were involved.

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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection

24 December 1969 to 1 March 1970

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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The Nude: Thirty 20th-Century Drawings

10 November 1970 to 21 April 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman and André Derain, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection

11 May to 19 October 1971

Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Seven by de Kooning

30 December 1971 to 28 February 1972

Riva Castleman and Willem de Kooning were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawn in America

1 March to 29 May 1972

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Permanent Collection

Started 29 March 1972

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Works on Paper

7 March to 4 June 1973

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1913–1963

3 December 1974 to 3 March 1975

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings: Recent Gifts

5 September to 11 November 1975

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, William S. Lieberman and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Some American Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

19 July to 12 September 1976

William S. Lieberman, Willem de Kooning, David Smith and Richard Lindner, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Words and Pictures

20 August to 6 October 1981

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints: Acquisitions 1977–1981

15 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981

1–16 March 1982

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

26 October 1983 to 3 January 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Tatyana Grosman Gallery Inaugural Installation

12 September 1985 to 4 February 1986

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawings Acquisitions

24 January to 14 June 1987

Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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American Prints, 1960–1985

22 May to 26 July 1987

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Collage: Selections from the Permanent Collection

3 November 1988 to 28 February 1989

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Max Ernst, among others, were involved.

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Abstractions

17 November 1988 to 26 March 1989

Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Jean (Hans) Arp, among others, were involved.

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Master Prints from the Collection

6 April to 8 August 1989

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.