Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American artist in the 20th century who specialized in abstract expressionism, a style of painting made popular by artists such as Jackson Pollock. A prolific painter, de ...

After a Willem de Kooning painting worth millions was brazenly stolen in 1985 from an Arizona museum, the staff clung to the hope that it would turn up one day. But nobody could have predicted ...

The story of the stolen “Woman-Ochre” painting and its journey back to the University of Arizona Museum of Art over 30 years later sounded like it came straight from a mystery movie. Aaron Cargile ...

Since it was returned to the UA Museum of Art in October 2022, over 9,000 people have come to see Willem de Kooning’s infamous “Woman-Ochre” painting. The exhibition, which includes evidence from the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — After 37 years, the Woman-Ochre painting by Willem de Kooning returned home to the University of Arizona. A couple visiting the school’s Museum of Art stole the Woman-Ochre ...

On the day after Thanksgiving in 1984, a woman distracted security guards at the University of Arizona Museum of Art with small talk while her partner was busy in an upstairs gallery. A man cut “Woman ...

Baltimore businessman and architect Edward Joseph Gallagher Jr. donated hundreds of paintings and sculptures to museums in memory of his late son, who died in a boating accident at age 13. He wanted ...

On the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, a man and a woman entered the nearly deserted University of Arizona Museum of Art and left after only a few minutes. Moments later, a security guard discovered ...

“Woman-Ochre,” a painting by Willem de Kooning, is readied for examination by University of Arizona Museum of Art staff Nathan Saxton, left, and Kristen Schmidt in Tucson, Ariz., in August 2017. After ...