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"Lee Krasner: A Retrospective," December 19, 1984–February 2, 1985, unnumbered cat. Staller Center Art Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Lee Krasner: Paintings 1956–1984," June 24–September 10, 1988, no. 12.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Lena Krassner (who preferred to be called Lenore, later Lee, and who changed her last name to Krasner) was born on 27 October 1908 to an immigrant Russian-Jewish couple. Her early art training was at The Cooper Union, Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York, where she studied from 1928-32.
In 1940, Lee Krasner joined the American Abstract Artists, a group that promoted international ideas on abstraction and non-objective art. Composition shows the powerful impact of European modernists Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso on her work. At this point in her career, Krasner often combined nature and abstraction in the form of a still-life.
Lee Krasner: Geometries of Expression. This focused exhibition sheds light on the often-overlooked early career of Lee Krasner (1908–1984) and places her work within the context of her peers. In the 1930s and early 1940s, Krasner rose to prominence as a dynamic voice within the vanguard circles of contemporary artists living and working in ...
1949. On view. MoMA, Floor 4, 401 The David Geffen Galleries. Untitled is part of a late-1940s series called Little Images that Krasner made on a tabletop in her bedroom, which she began soon after she and her husband, Jackson Pollock, moved from New York City to Springs, Long Island. For this work she used repetitive strokes to apply thick ...
Apr 4, 2024 · Lee Krasner, Cool White, 1959, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia. However, painting was Krasner’s life, and she began working at night when she was unable to sleep. She let her emotions roll out into her paintings, which she created in the same barn that Pollock had used to paint his drip paintings.
FROM 1946–49 LEE KRASNER produced a group of major works she calls the Little Image paintings. These works, whose originality and quality entitle their creator to take her place as one of the leading artists of the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, have never been exhibited as a complete body. 1 Moreover, the importance of the ...
