Willem de Looper

Willem de Looper was born and raised in the Netherlands. Always influenced by American culture, he moved to the US in the 1950s and followed his brother to Washington, D.C. where he studied art at the American University. He had a lengthy career at the Phillips Collection from 1959 through 1987 when he retired as the chief curator. While working at the Phillips Collection he pursued a vigorous and productive painting career in parallel with steady representation by notable Washington, D.C. galleries, including: Jefferson Place Gallery, Max Protech Gallery, B.R. Kornblatt Gallery and Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery. De Looper’s artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Kansas City, Augusta, GA as well as Paris, France and Hamburg, Germany. His artworks have been exhibited in several museums in the Washington, D.C. area, including: the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection, and Baltimore Museum of Art. De Looper has had several retrospective exhibitions at the Federal Reserve in 1978, Maryland University Museum in 1996, the Phillips Collection in 2002 and the American University Museum in 2008.

WILLEM de LOOPER (1932 - 2009)

 

Born 1932, The Hague, Netherlands

Died 2009, Washington DC

 

EDUCATION

1957     American University, BA, College of Arts and Science

 

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021     Color Field Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s: Aesthetic Transitions Through Process,

                  David Richard Gallery, New York, NY

2018     Willem de Looper, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC

2017     The St. Regis Series by Willem de Looper, Atrium Gallery, St Louis, MO

2015     Stained Paintings: 1964-1970, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC

2014     United States Embassy, The Hague, Art In Embassies, United States Department of State

2013     Washington Art Matters: 1940s-1980s, American University Museum, Washington DC

             REPRESENT, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC

             Willem de Looper, All that Jazz, Atrium Gallery, St Louis, MO

2012     Willem de Looper, Paintings 1968-72, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC

             The Morris at Twenty, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta GA

2011     The Big Reveal, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis MO

2009     Willem de Looper: In Memoriam, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis MO

             Memorial Exhibition, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

2008     Willem de Looper, American University Museum, Washington, DC

2007     Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

2006     Pass Gallery, Washington, DC

2004     Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2003     Watkins Gallery, St. Louis, MO

2002     Willem de Looper, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

2001     New Paintings, Alex Gallery, Washington, DC

2000     Recent Paintings, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

            Willem de Looper, Paintings 1998-2000, Alex Gallery, Washington DC

            Art Paris, Galerie Sacha Tarassoff, Paris, France

1998     New Paintings, Pass Gallery, Washington, DC

            Recent Work, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

            Willem de Looper, Recent Paintings, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington DC

1997     Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington DC

1996     Uno (only one), Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

             Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC

             Paintings from 1960-1976, Federal Reserve Board, jointly with the National Academy

                  Of Sciences, Washington, DC

1995     Sketchbooks & Small Paintings on Paper, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

1994     Recent Work, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington DC

1993     Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC

1992     New Paintings, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

             Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC

1991     Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1990     Works on Canvas and Paper, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1989     B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington DC

             Jones Troyer FitzpatrickGallery, Washington, DC

1988     Shippee Gallery New York, NY

             Tilghman Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

1987     B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington DC

             Tilghman Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

1986     Area Exhibitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1985     Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD

             B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington DC

1983     B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington DC

1982     Wald, Harkrader, and Ross, Washington DC

1980     McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington DC

             Area Exhibitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1979     Galerie L., Hamburg, West Germany

             Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York, NY

1978     Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, DC

             The Catholic University of America, Washington DC

             Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD

             Jean-Marie Antone Gallery, Annapolis, MD

1977     Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, DC

             Fraser’s Stable Gallery, Washington, DC

1976     Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, DC

             The Golden Door: Artist Immigrants of America, 1876-1976, Hirshhorn Museum and

                  Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

             Three-Person Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1975     Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, DC

             Large Paintings and Works on Paper, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

             Paintings from 1962-75, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA

1974     Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

             Montgomery College, Takoma Park, MD

1972     Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

1971     The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

1970     Washington, Twenty Years, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

             Philomathean Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

             Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

1968     Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

             Group Seven, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC

1967     Area Exhibitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

             Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

1966     Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC

1965     Area Exhibitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC

Arent Fox, Washington, DC

Citicorp, New York, NY

Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Federal National Mortgage Association, Washington, DC

Federal Reserve Bank, Miami, FL

Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA

Graham Holdings, Arlington, VA (formerly The Washington Post Co.)

Goldman Sachs, New York, NY

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

IBM, Washington, DC

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC

Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

National Science Foundation, Washington, DC

Phillip Morris Corporation, Richmond, VA

Riggs National Bank, Washington, DC

Security Pacific National Bank

Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Westinghouse Collection

The World Bank, Washington, DC