Exterior of the Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton, New York, summer 2018 (photo by Petita Cole, courtesy Elaine de Kooning House) EAST HAMPTON, New York — What is one to make of those occasions ...

Elaine de Kooning’s gestural portraits of friends and family were much admired during her lifetime, and included many well-known Americans. Sitters include poets John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg and Frank ...

Elaine de Kooning’s “Standing Bull” (1958) is a work of art that charges at you — soaked in light, saturated with muscular energy and visibly in motion, even in a fixed position on the wall. Nearly 9 ...

“I love cocktail parties,” says Elaine de Kooning in a quotation printed on an invite for a cocktail party tonight. “Big ones.” The reception is in celebration of “Elaine de Kooning: Portraits,” an ...

One of de Kooning's friends once asked her what it was like to work in the shadow of her husband, Willem de Kooning. She replied: "I don't paint... For Artist Elaine De Kooning, Painting Was A Verb, ...

The two houses are 81 miles away from one another and were built more than 250 years apart. But the John Jackson II home in Wantagh and painter Elaine de Kooning's house and studio in East Hampton ...

O ne of the first rules is no rules. This quote by artist Helen Frankenthaler marks the entrance to a collection of art never before seen in one place. And it foreshadows what awaits through the doors ...

Clockwise from top left: Elaine de Kooning, "Untitled (Madrid Series #3)"; Eanger Irving Couse, "Taos Pueblo at Night"; Jane Freilicher, "Burnett’s Barn"; and Joseph Henry Sharp, "View of the Taos ...

Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) was an accomplished Abstract Expressionist painter, teacher, and critic, part of the New York School of post-war American artists. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she was ...

24 x 29.88 x 1 in. (60.96 x 75.9 x 2.54 cm.) Elaine de Kooning was a prominent American painter known for her skill as a portraitist. Her energetic figurative works provided an important perspective ...