Lisa de kooning biography of nancy

    Lisa de Kooning, the only child of the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning and an artist in her own right, died on Nov. 23 at a family home on the island of St.

John in the Virgin Islands, reportedly from injuries after a fall. She was 56.

    After her father died in his Springs studio in 1997, Ms. de Kooning became, with the attorney John Eastman, the conservator of his vast collection of works, valued at many millions of dollars.

Over the years she worked with museums on exhibitions of his paintings. The team was credited for contributing to a major retrospective of de Kooning paintings at the Museum of Modern Art last year.

    John Elderfield, the curator of the MoMA show, was quoted as saying that Ms.

de Kooning, who was known for altruism, was “very ebullient and very kind to people. She was really, really proud of her father, but she was also her own person.”

    This week, friends commented on Ms. de Kooning’s generosity to both i