id:			160086
accession number:	1997.55
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.55
updated:		2025-02-09 05:25:48.358000

Litho #2 (Waves #2), 1960. Willem de Kooning (American, 1904–1997), the artist. Lithograph; sheet: 121.6 x 82.2 cm (47 7/8 x 32 3/8 in.); image: 108.7 x 77.8 cm (42 13/16 x 30 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1997.55 © The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Litho #2 (Waves #2)
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series:				
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creation date:			1960
creation date earliest:		1960
creation date latest:		1960
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright:			© The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	America
technique:	lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Graham 3

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CREATORS

* Willem de Kooning (American, 1904–1997)  - artist

* the artist  - published by

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measurements: Sheet: 121.6 x 82.2 cm (47 7/8 x 32 3/8 in.); Image: 108.7 x 77.8 cm (42 13/16 x 30 5/8 in.)
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edition of the work: 	9

support materials:

	description:	medium weight machine wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed, dated, and inscribed in graphite below image: lower right: "de Kooning 66"; lower left: "Happy Birthday to Jill and Bob / from Ruth and Bill"
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints
	opening date:   2001-11-18T00:00:00
	<i>The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 18, 2001-January 27, 2002).

	title:		Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West
	opening date:   2017-09-07T04:00:00
	<i>Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West</i>. Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI (organizer) (September 7, 2017-January 21, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (6/27/01 - 9/23/01); The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/28/01-1/06/01); Amon Carter Museum (3/2/02 - 5/12/02); "The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints"', 'opening_date': '2001-01-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Honolulu Museum of Art, HI (9/7/2017 – 1/21/2018):  "Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West"', 'opening_date': '2017-09-07T00:00:00'}

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Museum Acquires Major Chuck Close Painting, 19th-century Fire Screen, Rare Prints &amp; Drawings,” June 9, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4136

	Glaubinger, Jane, "The Stamp of Pulse", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 41 no. 10, December 2001
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2001-10/page/n3

	Papanikolas, Theresa, and Stephen Salel. <em>Abstract Expressionism: Looking East from the Far West. </em>Honolulu : Honolulu Museum of Art, 2017.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 26; reproduced: p. 55, pl. 6
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