Product Description A career-spanning look at Willem de Koonings singular drawing practice Known for his dynamic blend of drawing and painting, Willem de Kooning (19041997) did not believe in a distinction between the two mediums. In a career spanning seven decades, he explored the interrelation between drawing and painting to express a variety of recurring genres, themes, and motifs. Focusing on de Koonings drawing practice, this publication emphasizes materials, process, and technique to uncover how the artist achieved his characteristic active line. Before moving to New York in the 1920s and joining his contemporaries, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, in the New York School movement, de Kooning was rigorously trained in draftsmanship at the Academy of Visual Arts and Technical Sciences, Rotterdam, where he achieved mastery of traditional techniques at a young age. Willem de Kooning Drawing features nearly 250 works from the early 1920s to the 1980s, revealing the centrality of drawing to all aspects of his practice. Essays by eminent and emerging scholars and curators approach de Koonings work from a variety of perspectivesfrom examining his concept of the glimpse to reinterpreting his representations of womendemonstrating the artists enduring resonance. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago in association with the Rijksmuseum