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Willem de Kooning at the exhibition "Modern Art in Advertising" sponsored by Container Corp. at The Art Institute of Chicago, 1945, with The Netherlands, 1945
Photographer: Gordon Coster
© Time & Life Pictures/Getty Archives


Willem de Kooning at the Sidney Janis Gallery, June 15, 1959, leaning on Lisbeth's Painting, 1958
Photographer: Arnold Newman
© Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images


 Willem de Kooning at the Sidney Janis Gallery, June 15, 1959
Photographer: Arnold Newman
© Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images

 De Kooning at Black Mountain College, 1948
photographer unkown








 Willem and Elaine de Kooning. 
Photo by Ellen Auerbach


 Photo by Arnold Newman


 Willem de Kooning, 1956
Photo by Fred Stein


 Willem de Kooning (with cigarettes), 1950
by Rudy Burckhardt


 Willem de Kooning (with staff), 1959
by John Jonas Gruen


 Photo by Arnold Newman


 Willem de Kooning in his studio, March 22, 1950
Photo by Max Margulis


 Willem de Kooning in 1922, Rotterdam 
Courtesy Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek 
                                                                      

 Willem de Kooning on the steps of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, shortly after his arrival in the United States, 1926, © The Willem de Kooning Foundation


 Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, c. 1937, Gorky's studio, New York
Oliver Baker, photographer
Rudi Blesh papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution



 Portrait by Irving Penn


 Willem de Kooning in his Fourth Ave studio, 1946
Photo by Harry Bowden
Source: Archives of American Art


Detail from above. Photo by Harry Bowden
Source: Archives of American Art


Art in New York (Painter Willem de Kooning), cover of Newsweek magazine, 1965

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