Willem de Kooning

On Friday, the gallery opens the first show in its new home, "Abstract Expressionism -- A World Elsewhere," featuring more than 60 works by 28 artists such as Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and David Smith.

Unforgettable Sounds 2008

At first glance, his 1945 "Whispering Rain at Dusk" seems like a Ming-era mountain scene, but its loose brushwork hews closer to action painting, the spontaneous style typically associated with abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

A New Home for Arab Treasures Kelly Crow 2011

Upon graduation, she worked at the Sidney Janis gallery, "front and center for all the art that was happening," she says, giving her contact with abstract impressionists like Willem de Kooning , Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock .

Barnard Alumna Shows Art of Giving Melanie Grayce West 2011

Soon after the death of Earl Kerkam, six artists, including Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann and Mark Rothko, wrote a letter to the Museum of Modern Art's board requesting that they grant an exhibition to this School of Paris figurative painter—who never actually bought into Abstract Expressionism.

Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles Lance Esplund 2011

The estate of Willem de Kooning, once a pillar of the gallery program, also went to rival Pace recently.

The Gagosian Effect Kelly Crow 2011

Instead his son Carl Colby, a documentary filmmaker who has made award-winning films on Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Frank Gehry, and Bob Marley, among others, has turned his ample investigative attention to the life of his father, a military man and CIA director whose career spanned ill-fated chapters of American history: the Kennedy presidency and the Vietnam War.

Regina Weinreich: Spy Daddy: The Man Nobody Knew Regina Weinreich 2011

Painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning produced some of their most memorable work while living in Springs.

Springs Maintains Quiet Tack in Hamptons Joseph De Avila 2011

When he describes his career as "like hurling paint at a wall in a random pattern," Mr, Nivola might be evoking the abstract expressionist legacy of his grandfather, the sculptor Constantino Nivola, who came from Sardinia, Italy, and settled in Long Island's East End in the 1940s, where his circle included Le Corbusier, Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.

A Lyrical Part a Musical Father Plays Best Steve Dollar 2011

A nearly 200-work retrospective of the Dutch-born American abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning covers seven decades, from his academic still lifes as a young painter in Holland to the pared-down strokes of his work in the late 1980s, following the onset of dementia.

Don't Miss: Sept. 17-23 2011

The relatively minor faults of "Rebels" have to do with a tinge of gushiness—which is understandable when, bottom line, you're trying to make a case for L.A.'s scene in the 1960s being in the same ballpark as New York's in the 1940s, when Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning had long since emigrated to the city and Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline were relatively young Turks.

When the West Coast Went Pop Peter Plagens 2011