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Elaine Fried de Kooning

Elaine Fried de Kooning (1918 - 1989) was active/lived in New York.  Elaine de Kooning is known for Abstract figure, genre and portrait painting.

Elaine DeKooning was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York and spent her childhood studying the lives of artists and visiting the museums and galleries of New York City.  After high school she attended the American Artists School and the Leonardo da Vinci School and was swept up in the cultural excitement in New York of the late 1930s and early 1940s.  In 1943 she married Willem de Kooning, one of the group of artists soon to emerge as the first generation of Abstract Expressionists.  He was sixteen years older than she.

Elaine never completely abandoned representation.  A substantial part of her career had been devoted to portraiture, for which she was particularly known in the 1950s and 1960s.  Her most famous portrait commission was of President John F. Kennedy, which she was trying to complete at the time of his assassination.  During most of her career she had drawn and painted the male figure.  She painted in series and she tended to wor   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 12729 characters.]  Artist bio

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