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Title:Black Mountain #15
Artist:Elaine de Kooning (American, Brooklyn, New York 1918–1989 Southampton, New York)
Date:1948
Medium:Enamel paint on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions:32 × 44 in. (81.3 × 111.8 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Purchase, Iris Cantor Gift, 1992
Object Number:1992.22
Inscription: Inscribed (verso, upper left on stretcher, in black marker): Black Mountain #15 / 32" x 44"; dated and inscribed (verso, center on stretcher, in black marker): 1948 / enamel | paper | canvas; signed (verso, upper right on strecher, in black marker): E de K
the artist, Southampton, N.Y. (1948–d. 1989; her estate, 1989–92; sold through the Washburn Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. Washburn Gallery. "Elaine de Kooning: Black Mountain Paintings from 1948," October 1–November 2, 1991, unnumbered cat. (as "Untitled #15").
Atlanta. High Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 26–April 4, 1993, no. 4.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 4–September 12, 1993, extended to November 7, 1993, no. 4.
Washington, D.C. Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building. "Elaine de Kooning," June 21–September 6, 1994, no. 5 (as "Untitled #15 [Black Mountain College]").
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. "Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 11–June 4, 1995, no. 23.
New York. Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College. "Women and Abstract Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture, 1945–1959," March 20–April 17, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 18).
East Hampton, N.Y. Guild Hall Museum. "Women and Abstract Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture, 1945–1959," May 10–June 15, 1997, unnumbered cat.
Madrid. Fundación Juan March. "Expresionismo Abstracto: Obra Sobre Papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," May 9–July 2, 2000, no. 23.
Madrid. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art," October 2, 2002–January 13, 2003, unnumbered cat. (p. 101).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionist Drawings," November 1, 2007–February 24, 2008, no catalogue.
Roberta Smith. "Art in Review: 17 Paintings by Elaine de Kooning." New York Times (October 11, 1991), p. C28.
Helen A. Harrison inElaine de Kooning. Exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. Athens, Ga., 1992, p. 29, colorpl. 2, calls it "Untitled #15 (Black Mountain)".
Lisa M. Messinger in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1991–1992." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 50 (Fall 1992), p. 68, ill., calls it "Untitled, Number 15".
Lawrence Campbell. "Elaine de Kooning at Washburn." Art in America 80 (March 1992), p. 116, ill.
David Anfam. "Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper. New York, Metropolitan Museum." Burlington Magazine 135 (September 1993), p. 657, fig. 56.
Helen A. Harrison. Elaine de Kooning. Exh. cat., Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building. Washington D.C., 1994, pp. 8–9, 15, no. 5, ill.
Lisa M. Messinger. Expresionismo Abstracto: Obra Sobre Papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2000, p. 60, ill. p. 59 (color).
Vincent Katz, ed. Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 2002]. Cambridge, Mass., 2013, pp. 113–14, ill. (color), calls it "Untitled #15".
Cathy Curtis. A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning. New York, 2017, pp. 47, 217 n. 35, colorpl. 5, calls it "Untitled, Number 15".
Charles Demuth (American, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1883–1935 Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
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