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Elaine de Kooning

Untitled, ca. 1949

Description

Maker

Title

Untitled

Year

ca. 1949

Medium

Graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Image 17.8 x 22.9 cm (7 x 9 inches)

Type

Credit

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

Object Number

2001.80.54

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The New York School

November 7, 2003 - January 25, 2004

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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