The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Landing Place

1970

Willem de Kooning

(American, born The Netherlands, 1904–1997)
America
lithograph
Sheet: 73 x 94.6 cm (28 3/4 x 37 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1996.231
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Graham 6
Location: Not on view

Description

Between 1945 and 1948 a group of American artists, including de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell, developed Abstract Expressionism. The idea of working spontaneously in a non-representational mode grew out of Surrealism, which stressed reaching the unconscious mind. Using automatism, that is, making marks by moving the hand rapidly, before rational reflections have time to interfere, images can be developed that emerge directly from the deepest level of awareness and express a profound psychological reality.
  • From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000. "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints."
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