A major figure among 20th-century New York abstract painters, Lee Krasner became an acknowledged leader of the Abstract Expressionists. However, as the wife of Jackson Pollock, who emerged as the... Read full biography
A major figure among 20th-century New York abstract painters, Lee Krasner became an acknowledged leader of the Abstract Expressionists. However, as the wife of Jackson Pollock, who emerged as the leading figure of that period, she was overshadowed by his accomplishments, and her reputation as an... Read full biography
A major figure among 20th-century New York abstract painters, Lee Krasner became an acknowledged leader of the Abstract Expressionists. However, as the wife of Jackson Pollock, who emerged as the leading figure of that period, she was overshadowed by his accomplishments, and her reputation as an artist did not take hold until a decade after his death in 1956. Born into a strong matriarchal Russian Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Krasner was raised in a highly cultured environment. In the... Read full biography
A major figure among 20th-century New York abstract painters, Lee Krasner became an acknowledged leader of the Abstract Expressionists. However, as the wife of Jackson Pollock, who emerged as the leading figure of that period, she was overshadowed by his accomplishments, and her reputation as an artist did not take hold until a decade after his death in 1956. Born into a strong matriarchal Russian Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Krasner was raised in a highly cultured environment. In the 1920s, she studied at Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design. From 1934 to 1943, she was a WPA mural painter and also became involved with radical art and politics. During much of this time, she was a mural assistant... Read full biography
A major figure among 20th-century New York abstract painters, Lee Krasner became an acknowledged leader of the Abstract Expressionists. However, as the wife of Jackson Pollock, who emerged as the leading figure of that period, she was overshadowed by his accomplishments, and her reputation as an artist did not take hold until a decade after his death in 1956. Born into a strong matriarchal Russian Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Krasner was raised in a highly cultured environment. In the 1920s, she studied at Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design. From 1934 to 1943, she was a WPA mural painter and also became involved with radical art and politics. During much of this time, she was a mural assistant to Max Spivak, prominent abstract artist. In 1937, she became a student of Hans Hofmann and then began exhibiting with the American Abstr... Read full biography
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About Lee Krasner: Books
Books & Publications (108)
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler
2018
Gabriel, Mary
1,000 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction
80 pages (color)
Lee Krasner: A Biography
2010
Levin, Gail
546 pages (color)
American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless
2009
Herskovic, Marika
252 pages (color)
Pollock Matters
2007
Landau, Ellen; Claude Cernuschi
178 pages (color)
Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
112 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
Hamptons Bohemia Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach
2002
Harrison, H. and Denne, C.A.
176 pages (color)
Such Desparate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock
2000
Harrison, Helen A
0 pages
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
Modern Art
2000
Toynton
180 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Not Illustration but the Equivalent A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism
1997
Cernuschi, Claude
172 pages
Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
1997
Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer
176 pages (color)
Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997
Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley
400 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Three Artists (Three Women)
1996
Wagner, Anne Middleton
346 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day
1995
Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson
960 pages (color)
Lee Krasner A Catalogue Raisonne
1995
Landau, Ellen G
336 pages (color)
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Provincetown Abstract Painting 1915-1950 From The Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Provincetwon Art Association and Museum
48 pages (color)
Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage
1993
Hall, Lee
340 pages
Lee Krasner
1993
Hobbs, Robert
129 pages (color)
American Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Thistlewood, David (editor)
230 pages
The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art
1992
Kingsley, April
416 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992
Wood, Paul (others)
267 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
1991
Polcari, Stephen
408 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Women, Art, and Society
1990
Chadwick, Whitney
384 pages (color)
The Provocative Years: 1933-1945 the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown
1990
Evaul, William (Foreward); Cynthia Goodman; Lillian Orlowsky
32 pages
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960
1988
Susan Sheehan Inc
104 pages
American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
1988
Wilmerding, John
208 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Auping, Michael
302 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
The State of the Art
1987
Danto, Arthur C
228 pages (color)
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
1987
Levin, Gail
407 pages (color)
National Mus of Women in the Arts
1987
National Museum of Women
253 pages (color)
125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox
1987
Schultz, Douglas (Intro)
264 pages (color)
Jackson Pollock A Biography
1987
Solomon, Deborah
287 pages
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition)
1986
Rose, Barbara
170 pages (color)
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay)
142 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art
1984
Foshay, Ellen M
202 pages (color)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Lee Krasner A Retrospective (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Rose, Barbara
184 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
Twenty-Five Artists
1982
Messer, Thomas/Arlene Bujese
108 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present