Lee Krasner
(American, 1908–1984)
Biography
Lee Krasner was a renowned American Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with her husband Jackson Pollock and peers Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Arshille Gorky, she helped establish a wholly new painterly language. Krasner’s work fluctuated between mosaic-like shapes and representational images, never comfortable with keeping the same aesthetic for very long. “I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes,” she once remarked. Krasner merged the tonal aspects of Cubism with the bright colors of Fauvism, as well as addressing the contemporary avant-garde. The subject of her work was mainly introspective, and dealt with understanding the individual within both modern society and the natural world. Born Lena Krassner on October 27, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY to Russian-Jewish immigrants, she went on to attend the Women’s Art School of Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and classes with Hans Hofmann. Today, Krasner’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. Krasner died on June 19, 1984 in New York, NY at the age of 75.
Lee Krasner Artworks
Lee Krasner
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.jpg "Free Space (Blue), 1975")
.jpg "Untitled (from Peace Portfolio I), 1970")
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