Willem De Kooning in his studio Springs Long Island. I visited with my stepmother, Edith, his fly unbuttoned, he showed me his brushes lined up neatly on a table, "I wash them, clean them all myself," and said of his new canvases, "I'm just a sign painter."
1985
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.4 × 31.7 cm (8 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
sheet: 31.9 × 41.9 cm (12 9/16 × 16 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2011.146.10
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: Willem De Kooning in his studio Springs Long Island. I visited with my step-mother Edith, / his fly unbuttoned, he showed me his brushes lined up neatly on a table, "I wash them, clean / them all myself," and said of his new canvases, "I'm just a sign painter." September 13, / 1985, Elaine De Kooning was still alive. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: GD-AG-28; lower left on mount circled: #38; lower center: Image# 14931 GD-AG-28; lower right: GDC-600 61