Kooning
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
In parallel to the Biennale, there are dozens of exhibitions timed to coincide with it — including the de Kooning show.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
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
An erasure of elements to reveal something hidden but meaningful in our culture, in the tradition of Robert Rauschenberg famously erasing a Willem De Kooning drawing?
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 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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