Elaine de Kooning portraits

"John F. Kennedy, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Merce Cunningham, and Fairfield Porter were just some of the figures who sat for portraits by Elaine de Kooning. Famous for her marriage to the Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, Elaine was herself a groundbreaking artist and writer who challeng...

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Main Authors: Fortune, Brandon Brame (Author), Gibson, Ann Eden, 1944- (Author), Čupić, Simona (Author)
Other Authors: De Kooning, Elaine (Artist)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Munich : Published for the National Portrait Gallery ; DelMonico Books, Prestel, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Kim Sajet
  • Likeness as a glimpse: Elaine de Kooning's portraits / Brandon Brame Fortune
  • Elaine de Kooning's Joop series: visualizing the modern subject in portraiture / Ann Eden Gibson
  • JFK by E de K: "A woman paints one man" / Simona Cupic
  • Elaine de Kooning Exhibition history.