Excavation

1. Charles Egan Gallery, New York, 1950. Sold, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1952.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• “XXV Biennale di Venezia,” June 8–October 15, 1950, cat. 82.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America,” January 23–March 25, 1951, cat. by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, cat. 54 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, “60th Annual American Exhibition,” October 25–December 16, 1951, n.pag., cat. 41.
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Loan Exhibition of Seventy XX Century American Paintings,” February 21–March 22, 1952, cat. 55.
• Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, “New Accessions USA,” July 3–September 2, 1952, cat. 12 (ill.).
• “XXVII Biennale di Venezia,” June 19–October 17, 1954, cat. 64.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat.
• Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, “Willem de Kooning,” September 19–November 17, 1968, organized by the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, cat. by Thomas B. Hess; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, December 5, 1968–January 26, 1969, New York, Museum of Modern Art, March 6–April 27, 1969, Art Institute of Chicago, May 17–July 6, 1969, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 29–September 14, 1969, pp. 51, 73–75, cat. 46 (color ill.); Dutch cat., n.pag., cat. 43 (color ill.).
• Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, “Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments,” September 19–November 29, 1987, organized by Michael Auping, pp. 43, 45, 128, cat. 31 (color ill.).
• Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, “Willem de Kooning: Paintings,” May 8–September 5, 1994, cat. by Marla Prather with essays by David Sylvester and Richard Shiff; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 11, 1994–January 8, 1995, and London, Tate Gallery, February 15–May 7, 1995 (Washington, D. C. and New York only), pp. 20, 93, 100–02, 127, 136, cat. 21 (color ill.).

• Alfred H. Barr, Jr., “Gorky, De Kooning, Pollock (7 Americans Open in Venice),” “ARTnews” 49, 4 (June-August 1950), p. 23 (ill.).
• Louis Finkelstein, “Marin and de Kooning,” “Magazine of Art” 43, 6 (October 1950), p. 202 (ill.).
• Eleanor Jewett, "60th Exhibit in Art Institute Features Fads," "Chicago Daily Tribune," October 24, 1951, p. B6
• Aline B. Louchheim, “Conclusions from a Chicago Annual,” “New York Times,” October 28, 1951, sec. 2, p. 9.
• “Institute Show Is Great, One of 3 Judges Insists,” “Chicago Daily News,” October 31, 1951, p. 26.
• Daniel Catton Rich, “The Windy City, Storm Center of Many Contemporary Art Movements,” “Art Digest” 26, 3 (November 1, 1951), p. 29 (ill.).
• Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago’s 60th Annual Stirs Controversy,” “Christian Science Monitor,” November 3, 1951, p. 12.
• Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” “ARTnews” 51, 4 (June-August 1952), p. 63 (ill.).
• James Thrall Soby,"Painting & Sculpture," " Saturday Review," March 14, 1953, p 19 and 60.
• James Thrall Soby, “Willem de Kooning,” in John I. H. Baur, ed., “New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century” (New York Graphic Society/Frederick A. Praeger, 1957), pp. 232, 235 (ill.).
• Thomas B. Hess, “Willem de Kooning,” The Great American Artists Series A101 (George Braziller, 1959), pp. 116, 120–121, cat. 108, front cover (color ill.).
• “Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 122, 390 (ill.).

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