# Willem de Kooning's Use of Drawings in Painting

https://www.artic.edu/articles/1268/how-willem-de-kooning-used-drawings-in-painting

Willem de Kooning used drawings throughout his career to develop paintings. Early works began with sketches, later shifting to tracings and underdrawings. These drawings were central to his artistic process, especially in the 1930s to 1940s.

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