Willem de Kooning, 831 Broadway, New York
Dan Budnik
American, 1933–2020
1962
A 1962 gelatin silver portrait by Dan Budnik that seeks to capture an intimate, contemplative moment of an artist.
What strikes you is the tight, cropped framing—an up-close face and a weathered hand pressed to the mouth—where high-contrast detail and grain turn skin, lines, and fingernails into a tangible map of thought and fatigue.
The print exemplifies mid‑century photographic portraiture that humanized figures in the postwar art world, using stark black‑and‑white realism to reveal the private, psychological life behind public artistic personas.
Medium
Gelatin silver print, printed 1996
Dimensions
11 7/8 × 7 15/16" (30.2 × 20.2 cm)
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Credit
Gift of the artist in memory of Herman Cherry
Accession
1192.2012
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