John F. Kennedy No. 11

About The Artist: Elaine de Kooning

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Elaine de Kooning became a noted Abstract Expressionist painter who also pursued portrait painting in a semi-realist style. However, like so many women artists of that era who married artists, her career was sublimated to that of her famous husband, Willem de Kooning. They became the leaders of the New York School social set in the 1940s, 50s and 60. In 1943, she married de Kooning, a Dutch immigrant...