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Birth
1918 (Brooklyn, New York)
Death
1989 (New York, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait
Often Known For
abstract figure, genre and portrait painting
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Categories of Interest
Abstract Expressionism
Women Artists
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Elaine DeKooning was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York and spent her childhood studying the lives of artists and visiting the museums and galleries of New York City. After high school she attended the American Artists School and the Leonardo da Vinci School and was swept up in the cultural excitement in New York of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1943 she married Willem de Kooning, one of the group of artists soon to emerge as the first generation of Abstract Expressionist (showing 500 of 10199 characters). |
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