Elaine de Kooning

Untitled

Maker

Elaine de Kooning (American, 1918-1989)

Title

Untitled

Year

ca. 1949

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

null

Dimensions

Image 17.8 x 22.9 cm (7 x 9 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain

Object Number

2001.80.54

Type

Exhibition History

The New York School
Aaron Siskind in Context
Nov 07, 2003 – Jan 25, 2004

Label copy

Often I would go to Aaron’s studio and look through photographs. We wouldn’t talk so much about pictures....It was original imagery that painters appreciated. Franz [Kline] thought they were marvelous and would be enthusiastic about certain pictures....Aaron’s were expressionistic. He could take something that was still and make it come alive with action....I wrote [a press release] for the Egan [Gallery in 1951]. I studied the work for a couple of nights. Critics didn’t have the vocabulary. It gave critics something to crib from.

(Elaine de Kooning from audiotaped interview with Carl Chiarenza, ca. 1970, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., and Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson.)

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Tombstone

Elaine de Kooning (American, 1918-1989)
Untitled, ca. 1949
Graphite on wove paper
Image 17.8 x 22.9 cm (7 x 9 inches)
Gift from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain 2001.80.54

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