![]() “He just poured fast to fill it up, no matter what spilled out, and I said, ‘Boy, that’s America.’” What the hell did I want to go to America for?” A few days later, however, as de Kooning passed through a ferry and train terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, he noticed a man at a counter pouring coffee for commuters by sloshing it into a line of cups. “What I saw was a sort of Holland,” he recalled in the 1960s. At first he found his new world disappointing. After his ship docked in Newport News, Virginia, he made his way north with some Dutch friends toward New York City. In 1926, Willem de Kooning, a penniless, 22-year-old commercial artist from the Netherlands, stowed away on a freighter bound for America. ![]() Among the artists who emerged in the 1950s and '60s, Willem de Kooning, shown here in 1953, defied categorization. ![]()
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