Aaron Siskind
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Aaron Siskind was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved wi
Siskind, c. 1950
Willem de Kooning
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Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming a U.S. citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married
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…whose own breakthrough show at the Charles Egan Gallery occurred in the same period as Siskind's one-man shows at the same gallery), Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. Siskind was born in New York City, growing up on the Lower East Side. Shortly after graduating from City College, he became a public school English…
De Kooning in his studio in 1961
Plaque affixed on De Kooning's house of birth in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Mural by De Kooning at the Hall of Pharmacy, 1939 New York World's Fair
De Kooning in front of one of his works (Amsterdam, 1968)