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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Kooning, Willem de Creator Nationality: North American; American Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1904 - 1997 Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Rotterdam, the Netherlands Creator Death Place: East Hampton, New York Creator Name-CRT: Willem de Kooning Title: Litho #2 (Waves #2) Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1960 Creation End Date: 1960 Creation Date: 1960 Object Type: Prints Materials and Techniques: lithograph Dimensions: Sheet: 121.6cm x 82.2cm, Image: 108.7cm x 77.8cm Inscriptions: Signed, dated, and inscribed in graphite below image: lower right: "de Kooning 66"; lower left: "Happy Birthday to Jill and Bob / from Ruth and Bill" AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1997.55 Credit Line: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund Copyright: ? The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Rights: http://www.arsny.com Context: Abstract expressionism developed between 1945 and 1948 by American artists like Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack, and Robert Motherwell. An outgrowth of surrealism, abstract expressionists also wanted to reach the unconscious mind for imagery. Since art was made intuitively, by recording the spontaneous gesture of the arm as it moves across a canvas or sheet of paper, a large format was used and the focus was on painting. There was little interest in printmaking in America at the time, so that few abstract expressionists produced prints 1945 - 1965.Willem de Kooning's immense, powerful 1960 lithograph, Litho #2, therefore, is extremely unusual and important. The artist had produced only a few etchings previously and this and Litho #1 were his first attempts at lithography. Made at the print shop of the University of California at Berkeley, experienced lithographers Nathan Oliveira and George Miyasaki helped with the printing. In less than an hour, de Kooning produced images on two large lithographic stones. Karl Kasten, who ran the print shop, remembered, "All of us were overwhelmed by both the quality and the size of what Bill did on those stones...I think they are the greatest prints of the 20th century."Litho #1 and Litho #2 were highly experimental and so only a few impressions of each were printed on architectural paper which happened to be handy. It is this wonderful sense of immediacy, however, of de Kooning's brush loaded with black ink moving rapidly across the surface of the stone, leaving drips and streaks and huge curving forms, that creates the powerful and exciting effect of continuous motion. AMICA ID: CMA_.1997.55 AMICA Library Year: 2000 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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