Lee Krasner
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Lee Krasner 🇺🇸

Lena Krasner
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Born Oct 27, 1908 🇺🇸 Brooklyn, New York, United States
Passed Away Jun 19, 1984 New York City, United States
Lifespan 75 years old
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"I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter... and a little too independent."

Archival Overview

American Abstract Expressionist titan who pioneered gestural all-over abstraction, revolutionary torn-canvas collages, and sustained a ferocious creative independence.

Biographical Record

Lee Krasner was a central pioneer of the New York School, trained classically under Hans Hofmann where she mastered Cubist structure and Matissean color. Though long overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock, Krasner was an essential artistic catalyst whose 'Little Image' paintings (1946–1949) preceded and mirrored the breakthrough of all-over gestural painting.

Following Pollock's death in 1956, Krasner took over his cavernous barn studio in Springs, Long Island, unleashing monumental, ferocious canvases like 'The Eye is the First Circle' (1960). In the 1950s, she created groundbreaking collages by slashing her own rejected drawings and reassembling them into jagged, muscular compositions.

Key Life Milestones

1946

Little Image Series

Began her intricate, grid-based all-over abstract paintings establishing her mature creative autonomy.

1965

Whitechapel Gallery Retrospective

Honored with a triumphant retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, affirming her place in modern art history.

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Memorial Location
New York City, United States
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