DE KOONING, Willem
(1904–1997)
DE KOONING, Willem (24 April 1904–19 March 1997). Born in Holland, de Kooning emigrated to America as a young man and worked as a W.P.A. muralist. His midlife innovation came from imaginatively developing and extending a major stylistic contribution of European Cubism, breaking up the representational plane to portray an object or field as seen from two or more perspectives simultaneously. The initial paintings in his Women series, done in the early fifties, evoke in impulsive and yet…