FTP identify this Dutch-born American artist of the Woman I-VI series.
His entry into the country as a stowaway cost him his two-year position with the WPA. Too poor, at this point, to afford color paint he used black and white enamels to compose the large abstractions Light in August and Zurich. A great friend of Arshile Gorky, his first show featured more color in works like Excavation and Asheville, the latter of which was painted during his time as professor at Black Mountain College. But it was his meeting of Elaine Fried, who encouraged him to focus on the biomorphic forms of the body that inspired his greatest works like Pastorale, Pink Lady, and a series of figurative abstract expressionist portraits that depicted females as savagely sexual. FTP identify this Dutch-born American artist of the Woman I-VI series.
His entry into the country as a stowaway cost him his two-year position with the WPA.
Willem de Kooning