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Every day, a different object from the Met's collection is featured on the splash page of this website, together with an outtake from our curatorial files about that object's history, creator, iconography, materials, or other interesting attributes.

Fascinating facts about featured artworks are gathered in this archive, by date of appearance on the site. For more in-depth information about these and thousands of other objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit the online Collection Database.

From the late 1930s through the 1950s de Kooning's biomorphic abstractions (which allude to figures and landscapes) and his series Women placed him in the center of the Abstract Expressionist art movement.

Woman, 1944
Willem de Kooning (American, born The Netherlands, 1904–1997)
Oil and charcoal on canvas; H. 46, W. 32 in. (116.8 x 81.3 cm)
From the Collection of Thomas B. Hess, Gift of the heirs of Thomas B. Hess, 1984 (1984.613.2)

©1999 Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Chalice, 16th century (1532–33)

Plaque, 10th–early 11th century; Caliphal

Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea, 1878

Vase, 1893–96

Figure, 7th–11th century; Necker Island

The Belles Heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry, 1405–1408/1409

Self-Portrait, ca. 1630

Four-armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion, ca. second quarter of the 8th century

Smallsword of Colonel Marinus Willet, 1785–86

Head of a male, Old Babylonian; 2000–1600 B.C.

Tahitians, ca. 1891–93

Great Square-Headed Brooch, 6th century; Migration Period

Robe à l'Anglaise, 1785–87

Bedroom from Sagredo Palace, Venice, 18th century (ca. 1718)

Yuny and His Wife, Renenutet, ca. 1290–1270 B.C.E.; early Dynasty 19; late reign of Sety I–early reign of Ramesses II; New Kingdom

A Corridor in the Asylum, late May or early June, 1889; 19th century


Spouted ritual wine vessel (Guang), Shang dynasty, early Anyang period (ca. 1300–ca. 1050 B.C.), 13th century B.C.

View on the Columbia, Cascades, 1867

Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse, ca. 1665

Ewer with dancing females within arcades, Sasanian; A.D. 6th century

Woman, 1944

Centennial, 1877

Georgia O'Keeffe, 1921


Opus Anglicanum (Chasuble), late 15th century

Spinetta with Case, 1540

Pool Parlor, 1942

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 1842

Mandala, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)

Chest of drawers, ca. 1762–75

Boating, 1874

Elijah Boardman, 1789


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