Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was a Dutch American abstract expressionist artist. In the era after World War II, he started to paint in a style called abstract expressionism, or action painting. He went on to be part of an art group known as the New York School. Learn more »
Paintings by Willem de Kooning in Chronological Order
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| Seated figure (male classical), 1939 | Seated Woman, 1940 | Standing Man, 1942 |
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| Queen of Hearts, 1943 | Still Life, 1945 | Fire Island, 1946 |
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| Special Delivery, 1946 | Study for Backdrop, 1946 | Asheville, 1948 |
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| Night, 1948 | Painting, 1948 | Secretary, 1948 |
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| Untitled, 1948 | Woman/Verso: Untitled, 1948 | Untitled, 1948-1949 |
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| Untitled, 1949 | Abstraction, 1949-1950 | Excavation, 1950 |
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| Two Figures in a Landscape, 1950 | Untitled, 1949-1950 | Untitled, 1950 |
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| Woman, 1949-1950 | Woman and Bicycle, 1952 | Woman I, 1952 |
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| Woman V, 1952-53 (oil & charcoal on canvas), 1952-1953 | Marilyn Monroe, 1954 | Gotham News, 1955 |
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| Meg, 1955 | Easter Monday, 1956 | Saturday Night, 1956 |
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| Park Rosenberg, 1957 | Suburb in Havana, 1958 | Untitled, 1958 |
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| Merritt Parkway, 1959 | Untitled (verso: Untitled), 1959 | Door to the River, 1960 |
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| Clam Diggers, 1963 | Reclining Man (John F. Kennedy), 1963 | Rosy Fingered Dawn at Louise Point, 1963 |
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| Mae West, 1964 | Sphinx, 1964 | Two Figures, 1964 |
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| Untitled, 1964 | Untitled, 1964 | Woman, 1964 |
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| Woman, 1964 | Woman, Sag Harbour, 1964 | Brooding Woman, 1965 |
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| Pink Lady, 1965 | Untitled, 1965 | Woman, 1965 |
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| Woman – Red Hair, Large Mouth, Large Foot, 1965 | Women Singing II, 1966 | The Visit, 1967 |
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| Untitled, 1966-1967 | Untitled, 1966-1967 | Untitled, 1967 |
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| White Nude, 1967 | Untitled, 1968 | Figure at Gerard Beach, 1970 |
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| Landscape at Stanton Street, 1971 | Untitled (woman), 1971 | With Love, 1971 |
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| Two trees on Mary Street . . . Amen!, 1975 | Untitled XI, 1975 | Whose Name Was Writ in Water, 1975 |
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| Devil at the Keyboard, 1976 | Untitled I, 1981 | Untitled III, 1981 |
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| Untitled XII, 1983 | Untitled V, 1983 | Untitled #2, from Quatre Lithographies, 1986 |
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| Untitled, 1986 | Composition | Landscape of a Woman |
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| The Wave | The glazier | Untitled |
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| Woman with a Green and Beige Background |