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Willem de Looper was an abstract painter and former chief curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington. De Looper began working in 1959 as a security guard for what was then known as the Phillips Gallery; he became assistant curator in '72 and in '82 was named curator. In 1987, he retired to paint full-time.
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