Bohemian New York

Inigo Thomas is circumnavigating Manhattan: "Willem de Kooning, the Abstract Expressionist painter and Dutch-born New Yorker, whose Woman I at the Museum of Modern Art is the most disturbing depiction of the female form ever painted, was a night walker. Prone to depressions, as Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan's recent biography 'De Kooning: An American Master' relays, the painter would attempt to walk off his gloom, heading south to Battery Park from his studio in Chelsea, sometimes in the company of his friend the painter Arshile Gorky, often alone."