Collection Information
Size: 1 Linear foot
Summary: Joint federal income tax returns, 1951, 1953, and 1954, cancelled checks, cash receipts, bills, and bank statements.
De Kooning, Elaine, 1918-1989
Painter
Size: 1 Linear foot
Summary: Joint federal income tax returns, 1951, 1953, and 1954, cancelled checks, cash receipts, bills, and bank statements.
Elaine de Kooning (1918- 1989) was a painter in New York, N.Y. and East Hampton, N.Y. Her husband (1904- 1997), Willem de Kooning was an action painter from Holland who flourished in the New York school.
Donated 1981 by Elaine de Kooning.
Also in the Archives are Elaine de Kooning scrapbooks and interviews and lectures, 1959-1988 that were donated in 2004 and 2013 by Denise Lassaw, de Kooning's god-daughter.
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Elaine and Willem de Kooning financial records, 1951-1969. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.