Panel: Writing About Willem de Kooning

Mark Stevens, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography De Kooning: An American Master (2004, coauthor: Annalyn Swan), and Stephen Mack, project manager of a forthcoming de Kooning catalogue raisonné, offer two different approaches to chronicling de Kooning’s life and work in the pivotal years surrounding the artist’s first solo exhibition. Introduced by James Steward, the Museum’s Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director, and moderated by Alexandra Foradas, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Captions are computer generated.

The Princeton University Art Museum’s Art Talks: Willem de Kooning are made possible by a gift from Lisa Beth Podos ’86 made in honor of Shirley Ann and Frank Wozencraft and Family.

All artworks by Willem de Kooning © 2026 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York