A Conversation about Willem de Kooning

Dean Trevor Morrison is pleased to invite you to a conversation about American Abstract Expressionist painter, Willem de Kooning.

The New York University Law School is pleased to host a conversation between artist and teacher Joan Levy Hepburn, who was personally mentored by Willem de Kooning for more than two decades, and Richard Shiff, the Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, and author of Between Sense and de Kooning.
 
This event is part of The Willem de Kooning Foundation’s series, de Kooning Conversations. As an eyewitness, Levy Hepburn will present her first-hand glimpse into de Kooning’s methods, philosophies and who he was as an artist, person and friend. Shiff will serve as interviewer while offering his own insights from almost three decades of studying de Kooning’s work. What makes for a creative spark, no matter the medium will be up for question. Willem de Kooning’s 1985 painting, The Key and the Parade, is on long term loan to the law school library from The Willem de Kooning Foundation. It will serve as backdrop and inspiration for what we anticipate to be a lively conversation.
 
A reception will follow.

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The Willem de Kooning Foundation is the sponsor of this event. The Foundation is an artist-endowed, private, operating foundation whose mission is to foster the study and appreciation of Willem de Kooning’s life and work through research, exhibitions and educational programs. In an effort to stimulate thoughtful conversation between insiders, scholars, students, and others, de Kooning Conversations are held in conjunction with de Kooning Foundation loans at universities and public institutions, such as NYU Law.