Willem de Kooning

Yellow River
1958

An abstract painting featuring bold strokes of blue, yellow, and beige with visible texture and crackling on the surface, framed and mounted on a wall.
An abstract painting featuring bold strokes of blue, yellow, and beige with visible texture and crackling on the surface, framed and mounted on a wall.

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Date
1958

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall (sight): 62 7/8 × 49 5/8in. (159.7 × 126 cm)

Accession number
2023.2

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Betty Ann Besch Solinger and the Solinger family in honor of David M. Solinger, President, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966-1974

Rights and reproductions
© The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/38310

Willem de Kooning
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