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Lee Krasner

(American, 1908–1984)

Lee Krasner

Free Space - Blue, 1975

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Lee Krasner

Embrace for the Olympics, 1974–1976

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Lee Krasner

Marlborough, 1973

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Lee Krasner

Untitled (from the Peace Portfolio I) , 1970

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Biography

Timeline

1908: Born: in Brooklyn, NY on October 27th as Lenore
1922 - 1925: Washington Irving High School, New York
1928: Attends Art Students League
1929 - 1932: Attends National Academy of Design
1929: Graduates Women's Art School at Cooper Union
1933: Attends City College and Greenwich House
1937 - 1940: Studies with Hans Hofmann
1942: Met Jackson Pollock
1974: Augustus St. Gaudens Medal, awarded by Cooper Union Alumni Association Lowe Fellowship for Distinction, awarded by Barnard College
1977: Honorary Award, “Long Island Women Achievers in Business and the Professions”
1980: Women's Caucus for Art, “Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts”, awarded February 1
: “Distinguished Contributions to Higher Education,” awarded by Stony Brook Foundation, Inc. on March 27
: Awarded Cooper Union Citation on May 29
1982: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the French Minister of Culture on January 11
1984: Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, awarded by the State University of New York, Stony Brook
: Died: in New York, NY on June 19th

Exhibitions

2017 - 2018: Lee Krasner Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2018:
LEE KRASNER: THE UMBER PAINTINGS, 1959-1962, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2016: Lee Krasner Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Lee Krasner, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2014: Lee Krasner Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, 1945-1952, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2013: Lee Krasner Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Untitled (HYBRID), Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Contemporary, Cool and Collected, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
2006: Body Politics: Figurative Prints and Drawings from Scheiele to De Kooning, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2005: Museo del Corso, Rome, Jackson Pollock – Lee Krasner (March – May) (solo)
2004 - 2005: Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Reuniting an Era: Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s (November 13, 2004 – January 23, 2005
: Foro Boario Modena, Modena, Italy, Action Painting. Dal disegno all'opera, arte americana 1940-1970 (November 20, 2004 – February 27, 2005)
2004: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Ground – Field – Surface (June 10-August 20)
: Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Picturing Hampton Gardens: A 350 Year Legacy (August 14 – October 17)
: Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, Art Across America: The WPA Years (August 15 – October 31)
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner After Palingenesis (September 6 – October 15) (solo)
2003: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, Larger Than Life; Women Artists Making It Big (June 12 – August 29)
2002: Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre, Italy, Gli Irascibili e la Scuola di New York (March 21 – June 30)
: Palazzo Reale, Milan, New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Whitney Museum of American Art (March 21 – September 15)
: Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, A Family Affair: Paintings Sculpture Works on Paper (June 4 – July 25)
: Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, The Great American Nude (June 15 – September 8)
2001 - 2003: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints (April 21 – June 17) (exhibition traveled to: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (November 18, 2001 – January 27, 2002); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (November 18 – May 12); Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (January 16 –March 16, 2003)
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960 (October 12, 2001 – January 6, 2002) (exhibition traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (February 16 – May 12); Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville (June 21 – September 15); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (October 26, 2002 – January 26, 2003); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (April 5 – June 29)
2001: Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Jazz and Visual Improvisations (January 21 – April 15)
: Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserlautern, Abstrakter Expressionismus in Amerika (April 1 – June 4)(exhibition traveled to Ulmer Museum, Ulm (June 23 – August 19)
: Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, The American Way (April 21 – June 8)
2000 - 2001: Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Excavating Abstract Expressionism, October 14, 2000 – January 12, 2001
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner Mural Studies (November 30, 2000 – January 6, 2001) (solo)
2000: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, The Hamptons Since Pollock (April 2 – May 29)
1999 - 2001: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Lee Krasner Retrospective, PALINGENESIS (traveled to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines (February 26 – May 21, 2000); Akron Art Museum, Akron (June 10 – August 27); Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (October 6, 2000 – January 7, 2001) (solo)
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000 (September 26, 1999 – February 13, 2000)
1999 - 2000: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, The Surrealists in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School (December 14, 1999 – February 27, 2000)(traveled to Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg)
1999: Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France, Abstractions américaines 1940 - 1960 (July 3 – October 3)
: The Fundació “la Caixa” Centre Cultural Barcelona, Barcelona, Between Art and Life: From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art (January 21 – March 28)(traveled to Schirn Kunsthalle, Römerberg, Frankfurt (April 7 – 21)
: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, The Legacy of Hans Hofmann: Selections from Painters from the Hofmann School (February 16 – April 9)
: Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, Opening the Door: Women in Art (May 20 – October 26)
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner: The Little Image – The Large Canvas (February 9 – March 13) (solo)
1998 - 1999: Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, In Her Voice: Self-Portraits by Women (December 11, 1998 – March 28, 1999)
1998: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Tension (March 31 – May 2)
: Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, Lee Krasner Collages and Paintings. (January 10 – February 28) (traveled to Tasende Gallery, La Jolla, CA (March 13 – April 25) (solo)
1997 - 1998: Pollock-Krasner House, East Hampton, NY, Women: Peggy Guggenheim’s Shows from the 1940s (August – October) (traveled to: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (February - April 1998); The Museum of Women Artists, London (Summer 1998)
1997: Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, Women and Abstract Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture, 1945-59 (March 20 – April 18) (traveled to Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY (May 5 – June 23)
: Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, Going the Distance: A Generational Survey of Women Artists (April 24 – May 26)
: Gina Fiore Salon of Fine Arts, New York, Bishop, Krasner, Marden, Pollock, Brennan, Kreshtool, Lundsager, Tsao (October 17 – December 29)
1996 - 1997: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Abstract Expressionism in the United States (October 10, 1996 – January 12, 1997)
1996: Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (June 6 – July 14) (exhibition of Abstract Expressionism that traveled to Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya (July 26 – September 16); the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (September 28 – November 17)
: GreeneNaftali Inc., New York, Women’s Work (September 6 – October 13)
: Museum of Modern Art, NY, Works on paper by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in the permanent collection (May 2, 1996)
: Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, 20/20: The Visionary Legacy of Doris Chanin Freedman (October 25 – December 31)
1995 - 1996: Musée d'art et d'historie, Ville de Genève, Geneva, 1945 (October 26, 1995 – January 7, 1996)
: Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner: Collages (December 5, 1995 – January 30, 1996) (solo)
1995: Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Lee Krasner: The Nature of the Body, Works 1933-1984 (August 12 – October 15) (solo)
: Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, Lee Krasner Figure Drawings: Process and Transformation (August 13 – October 28) (solo)
: Knoedler and Company, New York, Seven from the Seventies: Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, Krasner, Martin, Mitchell, Scully and Stella (February 8 – March 4)
: The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT, The Collection of Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. (May 18 – June 11)
1994 - 1995: Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Abstractions: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami (November 13, 1994 – January 15, 1995)
: Lindsay & Thomas, Inc., New York, In Memory of Douglass Morse Howell (1906 - 1944) (June 1 – July 22)
: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, The Shaman as Artist / The Artist as Shaman (February 10 – April 10)
: The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art (curated by Sam Hunter and organized by The Hakone Open-Air Museum) (June 17 – 25) (travels to The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa-ken (July 18 – August 14).
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Abstract Works on Paper (July 19 – August 26)
1994: Tribeca148 Gallery, New York, Poetic Heroic: Twelve American Artists (October 18 – November 19)
: Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, The City University of New York, New York, Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s (March 18 – April 22)
1993 - 1994: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, In a Classical Vein: Works from the Permanent Collection
: Montgomery Glasoe, Minneapolis, Rewriting History: The Salon of 1993 (March 25 – May 28)
: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, Collage and Assemblage (February 20 – March 27)
: Nassau County Museum of Art, Rosyln, NY, Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends (February 27 – May 23)
: Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL, Modernism and American Painting of the 1930s (February 12 – March 28)
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner: Umber Paintings (January 5 - 30) (solo)
: Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Partners (June 24 – September 18)
: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, An American Homage to Matisse (May 20 – June 26)
: Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, The Artistic Relationship (April 20 – May 22)
1993: Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA, The League at The Cape (August 14 – September 20)
: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Drawing the Line Against AIDS (June 8 – 13) (exhibition under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale) (reinstalled at the Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (October 6 – 19), Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, “The Linear Image II” (October 5 – November 6)
1992 - 1993: Tate Gallery, London, Myth-Making: Abstract Expressionist Painting from the United States (March 10, 1992 – January 10, 1993)
: Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, Summer Group Exhibition (May 14 – June 30)
: Renee Fotouhi, East Hampton, NY, Twentieth Century Prints of the East End
1992: Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, Paths to Discovery The New York School: Works on Paper from the 1950s and 1960s (March 20 – April 17)
: Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl (March 3 – April 6)
1991 - 1992: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930s and 1940s Selections from the Penny and Elton Yosuna Collection (September 12 – December 1) (traveled to: Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville (February 23 – April 12, 1992); Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington (October 3 – November 29)
: Nassau County Museum of Art, Rosyln, NY, Landscape of America: The Hudson River School to Abstract Expressionism (November 9, 1991 – February 2, 1992)
: Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, Drawing Acquisitions, 1980-91: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (June 12 – September 5)
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner Paintings 1965-70 (January 4 – 26) (solo)
: Harcus Gallery, Boston, Abstract Art of the Sixties (February 9 – March 16)
: Lawrence Monk Gallery, New York, Dead Heroes, Disfigured Love (February)
: Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Twentieth-Century Collage (January 12 – February 16) (traveled to: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polonco, Mexico (June 13 – September 1); Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Nice (September 27 – November 11)
: Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Lee Krasner (May 2 – 28) (solo)
: Renée Fotouhi Fine Art, East Hampton, NY, Black and White (summer)
: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Works of Distinction: Selected Donations and Loaned Works (February 3 – April 281)
: Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT, Early Later (June 14 – August 24)
: The Squibb Gallery, Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporation, Princeton, NJ, Watercolor Across the Ages with Selected 20th Century American Works (April 13 – May 27)
: Twining Gallery, New York, The Nude-Drawing of the Figure by New York School Artists circa 1930-1950 (March 9 – April 20)
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art of the Forties (February 4 – April 30)
: Lawrence Monk Gallery, New York, Drawings (April 6 – May 11)
1991: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, Aspects of Collage (May 4 – June 9)
: Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Important Works on Paper (August 1 – 31)
1990 - 1991: Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Line & Action (December 21, 1990 – January 25, 1991)
: The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Shibuya, Tokyo, Four Centuries of Women's Arts (Selections from the National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington, DC) (August 15 – September 16) (traveled to: The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa (September 29 – October 28); Sapporo Tokyo, Sapporo, Hokkaido (November 1 – 13); Tenjin Iwataya, Fukuoka (January 15 – 28, 1991); Daimaru Museum Umeda, Osaka (February 20 – March 11); Nagano Tokyu, Nagano (March 15 – 27); Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima (April 4 – May 6); Matuszakaya Museum, Nagoya (May 23 – June 9)
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Drawing Highlights: Eric Fischl* Roy Lichtenstein* Esteban Vincente and Selections From the Collection (Sept 23 – November 18)
: Bachelier-Cardonsky, Kent, CT, Two American Couples (Lee Krasner/Jackson Pollock, Charles Cajori/Barbara Grossman) (April 28 – May 27)
: Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY, Long Island Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century (June 30 – August 26)
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Some Seventies Works (June 12 – July 31)
: Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York, Early/Later: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art
: The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, The Provocative Years /A House Divided (August 3 – 29)
: Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, West Germany, Kunstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts / Positions of Art in the 20th Century - 50 Women Artists (September 1 – November 25)
1990: Stux Modern, New York, Abstract Expressionism: Studio 35 Downtown (October 3 – November 1)
: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, East Hampton Avant-Garde / A Salute to the Signa Gallery 1957-60 (August 12 – September 23)
1989 - 1990: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Abstract Expressionism - Other Dimensions (October 26 – December 3) (exhibition organized by The Janice Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ) (traveled to: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago (January 23 – March 11, 1990); The Janice Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (March 25 – June 13); Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York (October 5 – December 5)
: Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Lee Krasner - Jackson Pollock (November 21, 1989 – February 4, 1990) (solo)
: Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Important Works on Paper (September 12 – October 12)
: Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, 300 Years of Still Life
: Citizen-Brown Gallery, New York, Homage to Walter Chrysler (February 2 – 25)
: Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, The Linear Image - American Master Works on Paper Since 1939 (April 25 – May 27)
: Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenville, NY, Line of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women (May 24 – June) (traveled to Blum-Helman Gallery, New York)
: Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY, Artist / Photographer / Artist (July 8 – 27)
1989: Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, The Gestural Impulse 1945-1960 (September 29 – December 1)
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions (July 7 – August 15)
: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Women Artists of The New Deal Era: A Selection of Prints and Drawings
: The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, Lee Krasner: Paintings 1956 - 1984 (June 24 – September 10) (solo)
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Paintings From 1938-1943 (September 8 – October 1) (solo)
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Drawing on the East End 1940-1988 (September 18 – November 13)
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Vital Signs
: Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Contemporary American Collage, 1960-86
: Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles Abstract Work From the 50s
1988: Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, Just Like a Woman
1987 - 1989: Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Contemporary American Collage 1960-1986 (November 9 – December 11) (traveled to: The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs (January 24 – March 7, 1988); Lehigh University Galleries, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (March 27 – May 8); Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (September 11- October 23); Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City (November 14 – December 24); University Art Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany (January 24 – March 6, 1989) and Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas (March 27 – May 8)
: Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Lee Krasner (solo)
: Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Abstract Expressionism - The Critical Developments
: Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI, Still Life
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Some Sixties Works
: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, After Matisse
: Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, The Presence of Nature: Some American Paintings
: Washburn Gallery, New York, Anne Ryan & Circle (May 4 – 30)
: Lever/Myerson Galleries, New York, Modern: Contemporary Masters
1987: The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Working Women
: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, Still Life
1986 - 1988: Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, organizers of traveling exhibition, After Matisse (exhibition traveled to: Queens Museum, Flushing, NY (March 30 – May 25); Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (September 11 – November 9); Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (December 9, 1986 – February 9, 1987); Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (March 17 – May 17); The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (June 19 – August 14); Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (September 12 – November 8); Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (December 9, 1987 – February 7, 1988)
: Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York, Hans Hofmann and His Legacy (October 15 – December 12)
: The Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, A Collector's Eye, Paintings from the Collection of Gordon Hampton (August 19 – October 5)
: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Individual: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-86
: Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, The Art of Drawing (February 7 – April 5)
: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner-Collages 1939-1984 (October 7 – November 1) (solo)
1986: Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Lee Krasner Paintings from the 50s (February 14 – March 15) (solo)
: La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Arte e Scienza/Arte e Alchimia
: Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, American Abstract Painting (June 19 – August 24)
: Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York, Masters of the Fifties: American Abstract Painting from Pollock to Stella
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Curator's Choice: 1985
: Kenkeleba House, Inc, New York, The Gathering of the Avant Garde: The Lower East Side, 1950-1970
: Meredith Long Gallery, Houston (solo)
: Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, Flying Tigers: Paintings and Sculpture in New York, 1939-46 (April 27 – May 27) (traveled to The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (June 9 – July 28)
1985: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Charcoal Drawings from 1938 - 1940 (March 5 – 30) (solo)
: Peck School, Morristown, NJ, American Women Artists
1984 - 1985: Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, Inspirit
: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lee Krasner Retrospective, Supplement: The Education of an Artist (traveled to Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Cooper-Union, New York) (solo)
: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Lee Krasner, Works on Paper (December 20, 1984 – February 25, 1985) (solo)
: Artcurial, Centre d'art plastique contemporain, Paris, Un Art Autre / Un Autre Art (April – July)
: Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Summer Group Show
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Summer Group Show
: School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Museum, New York, Collage Expanded (October 1 – 20)
: Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Painting and Sculpture
: The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Three Painters, Three Decades
: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Socialites & Satellites
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Reflections Of Nature: Flowers in American Art
: Suzanne Gross Gallery, Philadelphia, Major Contemporary Women
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, The Richard and Jane Lang Collection (February 2 – April 1)
1984: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, American Women Artists (Part I: 20th Century Pioneers) (January 12 – February 4)
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, An Other Vision: Selected Works by Women Artists in the Weatherspoon Collection
1983 - 1984: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective (traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Museum of Modern Art, New York) (solo)
: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Brookdale Center, New York, Eighteen Artists at One West Fourth Street (November 23, 1983 – January 6, 1984)
: Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, Painting
: Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, Paintings of the '50s
: Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Drawings
: William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Art with the Touch of the Past: Frank O'Hara (January 24 – March 13)
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, The Painterly Figure (July 24 – September 4)
1983: Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Artists in the Historical Archives of the Women's Interart Center of New York City
: Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York, Selections From the Rose Art Museum
: The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, Born in Brooklyn
1982 - 1983: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Carnegie International 1982 (October 23, 1982 – January 2, 1983) (traveled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (February 10 – March 27)
: American Craft Museum, New York, Making Paper
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner: Paintings From the Late Fifties (October 26 – November 20) (solo)
: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The Americans: The Collage (July 11 – October 3)
: Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Landscapes
: Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, On Paper
: Edith Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
: Phoenix II, Washington, DC, 25: Namuth and Twenty-four Artists
: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, A Century of Change: From the Great Collections of Long Island
: Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, In Celebration of Age: Twentieth Century Artists in their Seventies and Eighties (March 8 – April 16)
: Art Student's League, New York, Women In the Making of Art History
: Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, Selected Works on Paper (March 2 – April 3)
1982: Aaron Berman Gallery, New York, Women's Art: Miles Apart (traveled to Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL)
: Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Poets and Artists (July 3 – August 1)
: Landmark Gallery, New York, About Flowers (April 25 – May 14)
: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, Tracking the Marvelous (April 28 – May )
: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, Abstract Expressionists and Their Precursors
: Pace Gallery, New York, Solstice (March 20 – April 18) (solo)
1981: Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Lee Krasner: Paintings 1962-1971 (solo)
: Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship (September 8 – October 4) (traveled to Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York (November 3 – December 12) (solo)
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, A Tribute to the Print Club: 65th Annual Exhibition
: Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Group Exhibition
: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York
: Wildenstein Galleries, London, Ten American Artists
: United States Embassy, Copenhagen, Art in Embassies
: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Painting and Sculpture By Candidates For Art Awards
: Tower Gallery, Southampton, New York, Lee Krasner, Recent Works on Paper (August 16 – 29) (solo)
: Graham Gallery, New York, Originals
: Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Prints from the Guild Hall Collection
: Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, In Celebration of Prints: A Tribute to Lessing Rosenwald
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 17 Abstract Artists of East Hampton: The Pollock Years, 1946-56 (July 20 – September 14) (traveled to: The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs (October 11 – November 16) and Zabriskie Gallery, New York (November 18 – December 14)
: Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, From Matisse to American Abstract Painting (November - December)
: Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, Palingenesis, 1971
1980: Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Portraits, Real and Imagined (August 23 – September 21)
: La Boetie, New York, Pioneering Women Artists, 1900 to 1940
1979: Pace Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner Paintings, 1959-62 (February 3 – March 10) (solo)
: Pace Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner: Recent Work (solo)
1978: Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Lee Krasner: Works On Paper, 1938-77 (solo)
1977: Pace Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner - Eleven Ways to Use the Words to See (Lee Krasner - New Work) (February 19 – March 19) (solo)
: Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Lee Krasner, Paintings (solo)
1975: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Lee Krasner: Collage and Works on Paper, 1933-74 (January 11 – February 16) (traveled to Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, State College (March 23 – April 27); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (September 17 – October 26) (solo)
: Marlborough Prints and Drawings Gallery, New York, Works on Paper: 1937-39 (solo)
1974: Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Lee Krasner, Selections from 1946-1972 (traveled to Beaver College, Glenside, PA; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC) (solo)
1973 - 1974: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Lee Krasner, Large Paintings (solo)
1973: Marlborough Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner, Recent Paintings (April 19 – May 12) (solo)
1969: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner-Recent Gouaches (September 27 – October 18) (traveled to Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco) (solo)
1968: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner Recent Paintings (March) (solo)
1967: University Art Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Paintings by Lee Krasner
1965: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings and Collages (September - October) (retrospective exhibition circulated by the Arts Council of Great Britain to museums in York, Hull, Nottingham, Newcastle, Manchester, and Cardiff) (solo)
: Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit, Lee Krasner, Gouaches and Drawings (November 8 – 27) (solo)
1962: Howard Wise Gallery, New York, New Work by Lee Krasner (March 6 – 30) (solo)
1960: Howard Wise Gallery, New York, Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Lee Krasner (November 15 – December 10) (solo)
1959: Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY, Lee Krasner Paintings: 1947-59 (solo)
1958: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner Recent Paintings (solo)
1955: Stable Gallery, New York (solo)
1954: The House of Books and Music, East Hampton, NY (solo)
1951: Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, Paintings 1951, Lee Krasner (solo)

Public Collections

: Tate Gallery, London
: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
: Deutche Bank, AG, New York
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
: Atlantic Richfield Corporation Art Collection, Los Angeles
: Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
: Reynolds House, Winston-Salem, NC
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
: Paine Webber Group, Inc., New York
: Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase
: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
: The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
: Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Literature

1999: Lee Krasner. By Robert Hobbs.
1996: Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keefe. By Anne Wagner.
1995: Lee Krasner. Catalogue Raisonné by Ellen G. Landau.
1993: Lee Krasner. By Robert Hobbs.
Lee Krasner Umber Paintings 1959-1962. Exhibition Catalogue by Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY.
1989: Krasner-Pollock: Künstlerfreunde; Dialogue. Ellen G. Landau and Sandor Kuthy.
1986: Lee Krasner: Collages. Exhibition Catalogue by Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY.
1984: “Lee Krasner’s Past Continuous,” ARTnews. Article by Ellen G. Landau.
1983: Lee Krasner: A Retrospective. Exhibition Catalogue by Barbara Rose; Museum of Fine Arts, TX, and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
1982: Lee Krasner: Paintings from the Late Fifties. Exhibition Catalogue by Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY.
1981: “Lee Krasner’s Early Career, Part One: ‘Pushing in Different Directions’,” Arts Magazine. Article by Ellen G. Landau.
“Lee Krasner’s Early Career, Part Two: The 1940s,” Arts Magazine. Article by Ellen G. Landau
1973: Lee Krasner: Large Paintings. Exhibition Catalogue by Whitney Museum of America Art, New York, NY.

Lee Krasner

(American, 1908–1984)

Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner

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