Willem de Kooning - His Greatest Art Exhibition

Today's art exhibition that I wished I could have attended is the Willem de Kooning exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969. The exhibition was also at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as well as out of the U.S. At the time, this was the most comprehensive showing of de Kooning’s work. The show presented de Kooning in mid-career, beginning with his first works in the 1930s and ended with a large picture finished in November 1967. Willem de Kooning selected some pictures for this exhibition that he thought best represented his work and he wrote a chronological commentary to go along with the exhibition. Some of the pictures used in the exhibition had seldom been shown in public prior to this show. There have been subsequent showings of de Kooning’s work, but the 1978 exhibition created a lot of excitement in the art world and was well received by the admirers of one of the most important artists of the 20th Century. You can find a great collection of art books and exhibition catalogs at Nella’s Books and Collectibles.