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Elaine de Kooning

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Elaine de Kooning  was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918 and died in 1989. In 1962 she painted "John F. Kennedy", a good example of figurative expressionist

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Her energetic figurative works provided an important perspective in the milieu of Abstract Expressionism.

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In 1938 a friend introduced her to Willem De Kooning, the Dutch painter who had arrived in New York. Apparently, it was love at first sight.

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She wanted to be an artist, so she quit college and enrolled at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School.

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Elaine painted people for fun, including members of her family.

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She loved to teach and her students loved her.

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She studied each person “to find the characteristic pose that would define them.”

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Her most important portrait commission was of President John F. Kennedy, for the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library.
She spent several months on the commission. She was obsessed with it.