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Photo: Scott Leen
Warehouse Mannequins
Photo: Scott Leen

Warehouse Mannequins

Date1949
Maker Willem de Kooning American, (born The Netherlands), 1904-1997
Object number2020.15.8
Provenance[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1952]; Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2020
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistoryPortland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. C. Bagley Wright: Twentieth Century American and European Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 8 - Dec. 6, 1964. Cat. no. 29. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum, Willem de Kooning, Sept. 22 - Nov. 17, 1968 (London, England, Tate Gallery, Dec. 5 - 1968 - Jan. 26, 1969; New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Mar. 3 - Apr. 27, 1969; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, May 16 - July 6, 1969; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 28 - Sept. 14, 1969). Reproduced p. 67. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh International Series: Eduardo Chillida/Willem de Kooning, Oct. 26, 1979 - Jan. 6, 1980. Cat. no. 16. Newport Beach, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, July 15 - Sept. 18, 1988. Seatte, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Willem de Kooning in Seattle: Selected Works from 1943 to 1985 in Public and Private Collections, Nov. 2, 1995 - Mar. 3, 1996. Los Angeles, California, Museum of Contemporary Art, Willem de Kooning: Tracing the Figure, Feb. 10 - Apr. 28, 2002 (San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 22 - Sept. 8, 2002; Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art, Sept. 29, 2002 - Jan. 5, 2003). No cat. no., reproduced pl. 26 (as Warhouse Manikins). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle, Oct. 23, 2020 - Jan. 18, 2021. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics, Dec. 22, 2022 - ongoing [on view Dec. 22, 2022 - June 11, 2023].Published ReferencesRosenberg, Harold. Willem de Kooning. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1974. Reproduced pl. 68, with information listed with incorrect image, pl. 66.
Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions24 x 34 1/2 in. (61 x 87.6 cm)
MediumOil and enamel on buff paper, mounted on cardboard
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