Crown Point Press

Biography - Elaine de Kooning

Born

March 12, 1920 New York City. Died: 1989

Solo Exhibitions

2003 “Elaine De Kooning”, Hackett Freedman, San Francisco
1999 “Elaine de Kooning Portraits”, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
1996 “Major Paintings, Sculpture & Drawings”, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York
“Elaine de Kooning Paintings 1955 – 1965”, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York
1988 Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ
Fischbach Gallery, NY
1986‑87 “Cave Walls”, Guggenheim Gallery, Miami, FL
1986 “The Cave Series”,Galerie Silvia Menzel,Berlin, Germany
Gruenebaum Gallery, NY
1985 “Cave Paintings”, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1984 “The Bacchus Series”, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
“Cave Paintings”, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1983 “The Bacchus Series”, Arts Club of Chicago, IL
“Multiple Portraits”,The Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1982 “The Bacchus Series”, Gruenbaum Gallery, NY
“Portraits”, Port Washington Library, Port Washington, NY
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Italian Summers”, Phoenix II Gallery, Washington, DC
1981 Himmelfarb Gallery, Watermill, NY
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
“Hoops and Homers”, Spectrum Fine Arts, NY
1980 “New Paintings”, Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1979 Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
1977 Image Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1975 “Recent Paintings”, Graham Gallery, Ny
Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL
College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
1973 Benson Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ
“Portraits”, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
1969 Drew University, Madison, NJ
1965 Dord Fitz Gallery, Amarillo, TX
1964‑65 “JFK Portraits”, A series shown at the following galleries:
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, MO
Graham Gallery, NY
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1964 “New Paintings”, Graham Gallery, NY
University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Art Gallery Unlimited, San Francisco, CA
1963 Graham Gallery, NY
1962 Louisiana Gallery, Washington, DC
1961 Colby Junior College, New London, NH
1960 “Drawings for Poems”, Roland de Aenelle Gallery, Ny
“The Bull”, Ellison Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX
Howard Wise Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Holland Goldowsky Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Arena”, Graham Gallery, NY
1959 “Retrospective”, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, CT
Dord Fitz Gallery, Amarillo, TX
Gump’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
1957 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
1956 Stable Gallery, NY
1954 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
Stable Gallery, NY
1952 Stable Gallery, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

1997 “Art & Friendship: Selections from the Roland F. Pease Collection, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1993 Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
1991 “Concerning Nature”, Zen Center Hospice Guest House”, San Francisco, CA
1987 “For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“About Horses”, Wright Gallery, Dallas, TX
1986 “PublicandPrivate:AmericanPrintsToday”,The Brooklyn Museum, NY
Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1980 “The Fifties‑‑ Painting in New York”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1978 “Tenth Street Days”, Gallery Association of New York
1974 “Self Portraits”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
“Whitney Annual”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Women’s Work: American Art”,Museum of Philadelphia Civic Center, PA
1970 Carnegie Mellon Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
1964 “New Image”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Chicago Art Institute, IL
Carnegie Mellon Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
1963 “Whitney Annual”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1960 “60 American Painters”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,MN
1958 “Action Paintings”,Houston Contemporary Art Association, TX
1957 “The New York School”, The Jewish Museum, NY
“Sports in Art”, American Federatio of Arts, NY
1956 “Carnegie International”,Carnegie Mellon Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
“Expressionism”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Young American Painters”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1954 “4th Annual International Exhibition”, Tokyo Museum of Art, Japan

Selected Collections

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Elmira College Art Gallery, Elmira, NY
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
The Solomon Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Hirshhorn Museum of Art, Washington, DC
The Kennedy Library, Washington, DC
Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
The Truman Library, Independence, MO

Awards

Doctor of Humane Letters, Aldephi University, NY, 1985
Milton and Sally Avery Chair, Bard College, NY 1982
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1981
Lamare Dodd Chair, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 1976‑78
Mellon Chair, Carnegie‑Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1969‑ 1970
Doctor of Fine Arts, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1972
Doctor of Fine Arts, Western College, Oxford, OH, 1964