de Kooning
Americannoun
noun
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Newman was charmed; others, partial to the “fancy tricks with the paint” of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, were not.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
A who’s who of 20th-century art — Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, Lucian Freud — greets visitors from the walls of the grand and airy hallway.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2024
Secreted inside Warhol’s choice of commercial supermarket cans, however, was artist Willem de Kooning, the Dutch-born American titan of Abstract Expressionist art, who described his own brand of messy paint as “soup.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023
Other artists that feature in her collection include American painter and sculptor Jasper Johns, Dutch-American artist Willem de Kooning and American painter and printmaker Robert Rauschenberg.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023
She would be famous someday, Pearl was certain; someday her adored mother would be one of those artists, like de Kooning or Warhol or O’Keeffe, whose name everyone knew.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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