{"data":{"id":"1089","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":1089,"topgoose_id":14441,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":1089,"title":"Door to the River","display_artist_text":"Willem de Kooning","display_date":"1960","accession_number":"60.63","dimensions":"Overall: 80 1/8 × 70 1/8 in. (203.5 × 178.1 cm)","medium":"Oil on linen","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eWillem de Kooning, \u003cem\u003eDoor to the River\u003c/em\u003e, 1960. Oil on linen, overall: 80 1/8 × 70 1/8 in. (203.5 × 178.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 60.63. © The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1950s, Willem de Kooning began dividing his time between New York and eastern Long Island, then a rural area. His paintings of this period, as he described them in 1960, reflect the change in his surroundings. “They’re emotions, most of them. Most of them are landscapes and highways and sensations of that, outside the city—with the feeling of going to the city or coming from it.” That same year he painted \u003ci\u003eDoor to the River, \u003c/i\u003emaking his wide brushstrokes with housepainter’s brushes. The broad strokes of pink, yellow, brown, and white form a door-like rectangle in the center of the canvas, beneath which lies a passage of blue, perhaps evoking the river in the title. Floating amid vibrant space, the bold opening implies a sense of majestic other-worldiness. Confidently executed, \u003ci\u003eDoor to the River\u003c/i\u003e bears neither the marks of continual reworking characteristic of de Kooning’s earlier paintings nor the agitation and coloristic turbulence of his later work.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Bold yellow and soft pink brushstrokes overlapping across the canvas.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:20:18.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-31T06:00:06.277-04:00","images":[{"id":92628,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/1089/60_63_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"339","type":"artist"}]}}}}