Willem De Kooning Biography:
Willem DeKooning was an abstract expressionist painter born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 1904. He attended the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts and arrived in New York City in 1926. DeKooning originally supported himself as a mural painter, and a house painter (pursuing his own art, prints and posters in the evenings) until he met his friends and mentors Arshile Gorky, and John Graham.
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