Elaine Marie Catherine de Kooning was an American painter and art critic. A key contributor to the abstract expressionist and Figurative Expressionist movements, she wrote extensively on the art of th
Elaine de Kooning c. 1974
Bacchus #3 (1978), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college
Elaine de Kooning
…Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on the work. Style can be a prison. Elaine and Willem de Kooning spent the summer of 1948 at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Elaine studied under Bauhaus artist Josef Albers, architect Buckminster Fuller, and choreographer Merce Cunningham. A regular…
Buckminster Fuller and students assemble a geodesic dome, 1948
Main Building of the former Black Mountain College, on the current grounds of Camp Rockmont
From 1933 to 1941, Black Mountain College was located at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly.
Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College in 1949