de Kooning, Willem

1. A Dutch-born twentieth-century American artist who was a leader of abstract expressionism. His monumental, highly colored, often violent works include Woman, a series of paintings done in the early 1950s.

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“If you think of someone like Lee Krasner, who was Jackson Pollock’s wife, or Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning’s wife — they were a little overshadowed by their significant others,” Treanor says.

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