Aquatint Elaine De Kooning
1990s American Modern Landscape Prints
Etching, Aquatint
People Also Browsed
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
2010s Contemporary More Art
Mixed Media, Paper, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1880s Victorian Nude Paintings
Canvas, Paint, Oil, Gesso
1990s Landscape Prints
Aquatint
1980s Cubist Landscape Prints
Intaglio, Etching
Late 19th Century American Realist Portrait Prints
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Drypoint, Etching, Tempera, Watercolor
1980s Landscape Prints
Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Metal
1980s Figurative Prints
Etching, Paper
18th Century and Earlier Prints and Multiples
Engraving
18th Century Naturalistic More Prints
Engraving, Aquatint
1990s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Etching, Aquatint
Recent Sales
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Aquatint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Animal Prints
Aquatint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Aquatint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Animal Prints
Aquatint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Aquatint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Animal Prints
Aquatint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Animal Prints
Aquatint
1960s Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Aquatint
1940s Modern Portrait Prints
Etching, Aquatint
Elaine de Kooning for sale on 1stDibs
Elaine de Kooning, the wife of Willem de Kooning, was a prolific and versatile painter, writer, and teacher.
Although she was a major figure in both the Abstract Expressionist and American Figurative Expressionist movements of the 1940s and 1950s, de Kooning eschewed developing a singular style and instead painted in a range of modes from realism to abstraction.
“Style is something I’ve always tried to avoid. I’m more interested in character,” de Kooning said. Her paintings feature loose, thick brushstrokes in bold hues executed in an energetic, improvisational mode. “A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun,” she famously declared, “an event first and only secondarily an image.”
Highly noted for her skill as a portraitist, de Kooning often painted friends and contemporary figures, notably including a commission to paint President John F. Kennedy.
Born on March 12, 1918 in Brooklyn, NY, she went on to study at Hunter College and the American Artists School. De Kooning quickly gained prominence in the burgeoning art scene, becoming a member of the infamous Eighth Street Club alongside Franz Kline, Clyfford Still and Hans Hofmann, solidifying her place within the canon of American Expressionism. She is regarded as being instrumental in developing contemporary American art, shaping young artists through several teaching positions held at influential institutions like the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. De Kooning died on February 1, 1989 in Southampton, NY.
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(Biography provided by Heather James Fine Art)
Finding the Right Prints and Multiples for You
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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