Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
De Kooning, Willem |
Title |
Woman-Ochre |
Date |
1954-1955 |
Year Range from |
1954 |
Year Range to |
1955 |
Medium |
Oil on canvas |
Dimensions |
H-40 W-30 inches |
Credit line |
Gift of Edward Joseph Gallagher, Jr. |
ID# |
1958.002.015 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Provenance |
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY; purchased by Edward Joseph Gallagher, Jr., 1957; gift to UAMA, 1958. Stolen from UAMA 1985. Returned 2017. |
Bibliography |
Recent Oils by Willem de Kooning Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York, November 9 - December 3, 1955 [Title unknown][Only known from Jackson Gallery notation on file card, not known if group exhibition or individual loan] Atlanta Art Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 3 - unknown closing date 1956 Contemporary Americans [selections from Martha Jackson Gallery] Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, October 16 - November 25, 1957 Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection of International Contemporary Painting University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson, Arizona. [dates unknown, possibly March 1958; Inaugural Exhibition Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. December 5, 1958 - January 31, 1958 Contemporary American Painting Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio. January 14 - February 18, 1960 American Art Since 1900 Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. June 10 - July 31, 1960; Twentieth Century Paintings from the Collections of the University of Arizona Organized and circulated by the University of Arizona Art Gallery November,1962- April 14, 1963; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas. November 1962? Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri. December 1962? Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. January? - February 10, 1963 Kansas Art Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas. March 3 - April 15, 1963 Premier Salon International de Galeries Pilotes: artistes et decouvereurs de notre temps (First International Exhibition of Pilot Galleries: artists and discoverers of our time) Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland. June 20 - September 22, 1963 1964 [untitled exhibition - permanent collection installation?] University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. April 1964 - unknown closing date An Exhibition of Modern American Painting Colby College, Waterville, Maine. May 10 - June 8, 1964; Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective from Public and Private Collections Organized and circulated by: Smith College Museum of Art: April 8 - June 16, 1965, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts. April 8 - May 2, 1965, The New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. May 10 - June 16, 1965; Gallagher Memorial Collection of Contemporary Art University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. August 3, 1966 - September 1966 Two Decades of American Painting Organized and circulated by: International Council of The Museum of Modern Art: October 10, 1966 - August 13, 1967, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan. October 15 - November 27, 1966, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, December 10, 1966 - January 1, 1967, New Delhi, India, March 28 - April 15, 1967, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, June 6 - July 9, 1967, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia, July 17 - August 13, 1967; The Disappearance and Reappearance of the Image: Painting in the United States Since 1945 Organized and circulated by: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service: SITES: January 17, - November 16, 1969. Sala Dalles, Bucharest, Romania. January 17 - February 2, 1969, Museul Banatului, Timisoara, Romania. February 14 - March 1, 1969, Galeria de Arta, Cluj, Romania. March 14 - April 2, 1969, Slovak National Gallery, Bratisalva, Czechoslovakia. April 14 - June 15, 1969, Wallenstein Palace, Prague, Czechoslovakia. July 1 - August 15, 1969, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium. October 21 - November 16, 1969; (Summer installation of permanent collection?) University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, Arizona, June 26? - August 30?, 1971; Cuatro Maestros Contemporaneos: Giacometti, Dubuffet, de Kooning, Bacon Organized and circulated by: International Council of the Museum of Modern Art: April 7 - November 4, 1973. Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. April 7 - May 6, 1973. Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia. May 30 - June 30, 1973. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico. July 19 - September 3, 1973. Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. September 14 - October 6, 1973. Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 15 - November 4, 1973 1979 Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection [exhibition or installation] University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. August? - September?, 1979 Willem de Kooning: Works from 1951-1981 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, May 23 - July 19, 1981. Conserving de Kooning: Theft and Recovery; Getty Center, Los Angeles, June 7-August 28, 2022 Restored: The Return of Woman-Ochre, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, October 8, 2022-May 20, 2023 |
Exhibitions History |
Hess, Thomas B., Willem de Kooning (New York, George Braziller,1959) (Great American Artists Series), no. 125. Miroir et Memoir du Premier Salon International de Galeries Pilotes (Lausanne, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts,1964). Reflections on 1963 exhibition with mention of (unnamed) de Kooning work shown in Martha Jackson Gallery section, page 50, no illus. Haydon, Harold, Great Art Treasures in America’s Smaller Museums (New York, Putnam, 1967), page 165, color illus. Myers, Bernard Samuel, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1969) page 239, color illus. Spaeth, Eloise, American Art Museums, an Introduction to Looking (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1969). Mention in discussion of University of Arizona, page 262, no illus. |
Subjects |
Abstract paintings Women Non-objective Abstract Abstract Expressionism Abstract works Figures Oil painting |