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Kooning

British  
/ ˈkuːnɪŋ /

noun

  1. See de Kooning

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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

One day in 1953, the young and not yet widely known artist Robert Rauschenberg, just 26, knocked on the studio door of Willem de Kooning, 49, a newly successful figure just emerging into the forefront among a growing cohort of celebrated painters in postwar New York.

From Los Angeles Times

Rauschenberg wanted a De Kooning drawing so he could erase it.

From Los Angeles Times

“Erasing” De Kooning would get the incipient powerhouse out of the way, artistically speaking.

From Los Angeles Times

She was part of the group of postwar artists — Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan and Elaine de Kooning — written about in the book “Ninth Street Women,” which details how abstract expressionism was born in this country and how women were a crucial part of it.

From Los Angeles Times