Figure 1. Elaine de Kooning, Black Mountain #16, 1948. Private Collection.

191 Figure 2. Elaine de Kooning, Untitled, #15, 1948. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

192 Figure 3. Willem de Kooning, Judgment Day, 1946. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

193 Figure 4. Elaine de Kooning, Detail, Untitled #15, 1948. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

194 Figure 5. Hans Hofmann, Ecstasy, 1947. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum.

195 Figure 6. Elaine de Kooning, Untitled 11, 1948. Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York.

196 Figure 7. Elaine de Kooning, Self Portrait #3, 1946. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

197 Figure 8. Elaine de Kooning, Detail, Self Portrait #3, 1946. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

198 Figure 9. Elaine de Kooning, Detail, Self Portrait #3, 1946. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

199 Figure 10. Elaine de Kooning, Untitled 12, 1948. Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York.

200 Figure 11. Elaine de Kooning, Black Mountain #6, 1948. Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York.

201 Figure 12. Grace Hartigan, Frank O’Hara, 1966. National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

202 Figure 13. Elaine de Kooning, Kaldis #12, 1978. Private Collection.

203 Figure 14. Elaine de Kooning, Frank O’Hara, 1956. Private Collection.

204 Figure 15. Arshile Gorky, The Artist and His Mother, 1926-36. Whitney Museum of Art, New York.

205 Figure 16. Elaine de Kooning, Al Lazar #2, 1954. Private Collection.

206 Figure 17. Elaine de Kooning, Conrad #2, 1950. Private Collection.

207 Figure 18. Elaine de Kooning, JFK, 1963. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

208 Figure 19. Elaine de Kooning, JFK #21, 1963. Private Collection.

209 Figure 20. Elaine de Kooning, Seated Figure, 1962-63. Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.

210 Figure 21. Aaron Shikler, Portrait of John F. Kennedy, 1970. The White House Collection, Washington, D.C.

211 Figure 22. James Wyeth, JFK, 1967. Private Collection.

212 Figure 23. Elaine de Kooning sketching John F. Kennedy, 1962 Dec. Photographic print, Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.

213 Figure 24. Willem de Kooning, Reclining Man, 1963. Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

214 Figure 25. Elaine de Kooning, Bill at St. Mark’s, 1956. Private Collection.

215 Figure 26. Elaine de Kooning, Gandy Brodie, 1970. Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York.

216 Figure 27. Elaine de Kooning, Harold Rosenberg, 1956. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

217 Figure 28. Alice Neel, Self-Portrait, 1980. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

218 Figure 29. Elaine de Kooning, Self Portrait #1, 1942. Private Collection.

219 Figure 30. Elaine de Kooning, Fairfield Porter #1, 1954. Private Collection.

220 Figure 31. Alice Neel, Nadya Nude, 1933. Private Collection.

221 Figure 32. Alice Neel, Frank O’Hara, 1960. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

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