We are grateful to Valerie Hellstein for her development of this project, and to Richard Shiff for his contribution to the research.
Valerie Hellstein would like to thank her former colleagues at The Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York – Amy Schichtel, Roger Anthony, Jordan Kolinski and Jeremy Bleeke – as well as Alex Taylor, who shared invaluable research, and Julia Bailey and Celia White at Tate, London. Finally, special thanks are owed to Eric Haglund for his perceptive reading and insightful suggestions.
Richard Shiff would like to offer the following thanks: for aid in documentation, I am grateful to Valerie Hellstein, along with Amy Schichtel and Roger Anthony at The Willem de Kooning Foundation, and Julia Bailey and Celia White at Tate. I thank Jeannie McKetta for essential assistance in research.
This project belongs to a series of In Focus studies commissioned as part of Refiguring American Art, a major research project generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Authors
Dr Valerie Hellstein, independent art historian
Dr Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director of the Center for the Study of Modernism, University of Texas at Austin
Series editor: Jennifer Mundy, Head of Collection Research, Tate
Commissioning editor: Alex Taylor, Terra Foundation Research Fellow in American Art, Tate
Project manager: Julia Bailey, Terra Foundation for American Art Research Project Manager, Tate
Project editor: Celia White, Collection Research Editor, Tate
Digital editor: Susannah Worth, Digital Editor (Research), Tate
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