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professor of art at the University of Southern California

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Willem de Kooning: The Artist's Materials book Important facts about the subjectsSusan F. Lake This in depth study of the paintings of Willem de Kooning (19041997) from the 1940s through the 1970s breaks new ground in its analysis of the artist's working methods and yields new information about previously unreported materials. De Kooning's idiosyncratic working methods have long engendered intense speculation and debate among conservators and art historians, primarily on the basis of visual inspection and anecdotal accounts rather