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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The People & Things I Run Across: Willem de Kooning
From a piece on Timothy Leary in
Wired
:
Hints of a wilder past could be found in a glass case that displayed a few artifacts, including a 1960 letter from the beat poet Allen Ginsberg asking Leary if he could score some mescaline for the great abstract expressionist painters Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.
From a history of Norman Rockwell in
Smithsonian Magazine
:
“Square inch by square inch,” de Kooning announced in his accented English, “it’s better than Jackson!”
This is one of
de Kooning's:
And I'd never even heard of him before today,....
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