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
Rauschenberg wanted a De Kooning drawing so he could erase it.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025
Benjamin’s home was filled with art catalogs and past editions of Art in America, where Mathieu was introduced to his earliest artistic inspirations, including de Kooning, Luc Tuymans and Francis Bacon.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 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
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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