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The Excavator: “De Kooning” Curator John Elderfield on Lost Themes, the Misunderstood Late Work, and the Pleasures of Google - “The Museum of Modern Art’s “de Kooning: A Retrospective” is a mammoth rethinking of Willem de Kooning oeuvre and career, and as such is the latest master class in curation by John Elderfield, the museum’s chief curator emeritus of sculpture and painting.”

The Excavator: “De Kooning” Curator John Elderfield on Lost Themes, the Misunderstood Late Work, and the Pleasures of Google - “The Museum of Modern Art’s “de Kooning: A Retrospective” is a mammoth rethinking of Willem de Kooning oeuvre and career, and as such is the latest master class in curation by John Elderfield, the museum’s chief curator emeritus of sculpture and painting.”

De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan is one of the best biographies you’ll ever read, what one reviewer described as, “gossipier than any tabloid, as scholarly as Vasari, luminously illustrated and illuminating as a lightning bolt.” The story of the legendary erased de Kooning drawing is extraordinary. In 1953 A young Robert Rauschenberg asked the middle aged de Kooning for a drawing he could erase, de Kooning says, “I know what you’re doing,” and adds, “I want to give you one that I’ll miss.” It took Rauschenberg months to erase the drawing, and when it was exhibited publicly, de Kooning was furious. Click here to read the three-page PDF that appeared in NYMag a few years ago.

De Kooning: An American Master, by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan is one of the best biographies you’ll ever read, what one reviewer described as, “gossipier than any tabloid, as scholarly as Vasari, luminously illustrated and illuminating as a lightning bolt.” The story of the legendary erased de Kooning drawing is extraordinary. In 1953 A young Robert Rauschenberg asked the middle aged de Kooning for a drawing he could erase, de Kooning says, “I know what you’re doing,” and adds, “I want to give you one that I’ll miss.” It took Rauschenberg months to erase the drawing, and when it was exhibited publicly, de Kooning was furious. Click here to read the three-page PDF that appeared in NYMag a few years ago.