Figure 33. Alice Neel, Frank O’Hara, No. 2, 1960. Private Collection.

223 Figure 34. Elaine de Kooning, Megan #2, 1980. Private Collection.

224 Figure 35. Elaine de Kooning, Pele, 1982. Private Collection.

225 Figure 36. Elaine de Kooning, Barbara Poses Kafka. Private Collection.

226 Figure 37. Elaine de Kooning, The Burghers of Amsterdam Avenue, 1963. Private Collection.

227 Figure 38. Jackson Pollock, Guggenheim Mural, 1943. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City.

228 Figure 39. Lee Krasner, Celebration, 1960. Placido Arango Collection.

229 Figure 40. Detail, The Burghers of Amsterdam Avenue, 1963. Private Collection.

230 Figure 41. El Greco, Vision of Saint John, 1608-14. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

231 Figure 42. Elaine de Kooning, The Loft Dwellers, 1961. Private Collection.

232 Figure 43. Elaine de Kooning, The Silent Ones, 1961. Private Collection.

233 Figure 44. Grace Hartigan, Grand Street Brides, 1954. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

234 Figure 45. “The Irascibles” photograph, January 15, 1951. LIFE Magazine.

235 Figure 46. Elaine de Kooning, Campy at the Plate, 1953-80. Private Collection.

236 Figure 47. Elaine de Kooning, Basketball #86, 1948. Private Collection.

237 Figure 48. Elaine de Kooning, High Man (Basketball #87), 1954. Private Collection.

238 Figure 49. Elaine de Kooning, Basketball #40, 1977. Private Collection.

239 Figure 50. Elaine de Kooning, Scrimmage, 1953. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

240 Figure 51. Elaine de Kooning, Baseball Players, 1953. Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

241 Figure 52. Myron, Discus Thrower (Diskobolos), Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450 BCE. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

242 Figure 53. Reconstruction drawing of the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, c. 470-456 BCE.

243 Figure 54. Elaine de Kooning, Casey on the Mound, 1954-1980. Spectrum Fine Art.

244 Figure 55. Willem de Kooning, Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

245 Figure 56. Jules Dalou, The Triumph of Silenus,19th c. Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.

246 Figure 57. Elaine de Kooning, Bacchus #81, 1983. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia.

247 Figure 58. Elaine de Kooning, Bacchus #3, 1978. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.

248 Figure 59. Elaine de Kooning, Bacchus #1, 1976. Private Collection.

249 Figure 60. Elaine de Kooning, Bacchus #62, 1980. Private Collection.

250 Figure 61. Elaine de Kooning, Bacchus #63, 1982. Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York.

251 Figure 62. Elaine de Kooning, Bacchus #19-0, 1983. Private Collection.

252 Figure 63. Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral, West Facade, Sunlight, 1894. National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

253 Figure 64. Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral at the End of the Day (Sunlight Effect), 1893. Private Collection.

254 Figure 65. Elaine de Kooning, Untitled, c. 1947. Private Collection.

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