books.google.com - Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter's painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement...http://books.google.com/books/about/De_Kooning.html?id=q1NdO1GyagoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDe Kooning