Event details
Mar
14
Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945-50
Hear from two de Kooning experts on the task of writing about the artist’s life and practice in the 1940s.
Mark Stevens, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography De Kooning: An American Master (2004, coauthor: Annalyn Swan), and Stephen Mack, project manager of a forthcoming de Kooning catalogue raisonné, offer two different approaches to chronicling de Kooning's life and work in the pivotal years surrounding the artist's first solo exhibition. Introduced and moderated by Alexandra Foradas, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
This event has sold out. If you were unable to reserve a free ticket, you can join a first come, first served wait line onsite.
Members receive full-day access to the exhibition from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Members Preview Day before the exhibition opens to the public fully on March 15. If you are not yet a member, join today!
The Princeton University Art Museum’s Art Talks: Willem de Kooning are made possible by a gift from Lisa Beth Podos ’86 made in honor of Shirley Ann and Frank Wozencraft and Family.
Mark Stevens, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography De Kooning: An American Master (2004, coauthor: Annalyn Swan), and Stephen Mack, project manager of a forthcoming de Kooning catalogue raisonné, offer two different approaches to chronicling de Kooning's life and work in the pivotal years surrounding the artist's first solo exhibition. Introduced and moderated by Alexandra Foradas, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
This event has sold out. If you were unable to reserve a free ticket, you can join a first come, first served wait line onsite.
Members receive full-day access to the exhibition from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Members Preview Day before the exhibition opens to the public fully on March 15. If you are not yet a member, join today!
The Princeton University Art Museum’s Art Talks: Willem de Kooning are made possible by a gift from Lisa Beth Podos ’86 made in honor of Shirley Ann and Frank Wozencraft and Family.
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Date
March 14, 2026Time
10:00 a.m.Audience
External Sponsors
The Princeton University Art Museum’s Art Talks: Willem de Kooning are made possible by a gift from Lisa Beth Podos ’86 made in honor of Shirley Ann and Frank Wozencraft and Family.