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Lee Krasner

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Lee Lenore (Pollock) Krasner (1908 - 1984) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.  Lee Krasner is known for Abstract expressionist and gestural painting, collage.

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 Abstracts Artists, a group protesting the Social Realist movement led by Robert Henri. Like so many of he   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 26235 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Lee Krasner

   Publications  Book References:  109
Magazine References:  26

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26 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Lee Krasner
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews National News November 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Auction at the fair October 2004 Editors, Art+Auction Yes
ARTnews ARTtalk April 2004 Douglas, Sarah Yes
ARTnews Sharing the Angels March 2004 Kinsella, Eileen No
Art in America Front Page January 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Art Market January 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
Art & Auction Principals of Design; Geoffrey Brad May 2003 Mason, Brook S Yes
Art & Antiques When East Came West February 2003 Gomez, Edward M Yes
Art & Auction Datebook January 2003 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTnews Defining Moments November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews How are Critics Spoke November 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews Books October 2002 Editors, ARTnews No
Art & Antiques Museum Scene March 2001 Editors Yes
Art in America Lee Krasner: Front and Center February 2001 Brach, Paul Yes
Art & Auction Marketplace February 2001 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
ARTnews Reviews January 2001 Editors Yes
ARTnews National News December 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Antiques Out of Pollock's Shadow November 2000 May, Stephen Yes
American Art Review The American Century, Part 2 February 2000 Editors, American Art Review Yes
ARTnews Art Talk January 2000 Editors, ARTnews No
ARTnews More than Mrs. Pollock September 1999 Baker, Kenneth Yes
ARTnews Reviews May 1998 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews National News April 1998 Gladstone, Valerie Yes
ARTnews Vasari Diary November 1996 Editors, Art News Yes
ARTnews All It Takes Is Common Sense June 1995 Zorpette, Glenn No
ARTnews Going Hollywood May 1995 Hogrefe, Jeffrey No
109 Book References for Lee Krasner
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Gabriel, Mary Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler 1000 Yes
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 360 Yes
2012 Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
2010 Levin, Gail Lee Krasner: A Biography 546 Yes
2009 Herskovic, Marika American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless 252 Yes
2007 Landau, Ellen; Claude Cernuschi Pollock Matters 178 Yes
2007 Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Herskovic, Marika (editor) American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey 372 Yes
2002 Harrison, H. and Denne, C.A. Hamptons Bohemia Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach 176 Yes
2000 Harrison, Helen A Such Desparate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock 0 No
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
2000 Toynton Modern Art 180 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Cernuschi, Claude Not Illustration but the Equivalent A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism 172 No
1997 Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists 176 Yes
1997 Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States 400 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Wagner, Anne Middleton Three Artists (Three Women) 346 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day 960 Yes
1995 Landau, Ellen G Lee Krasner A Catalogue Raisonne 336 Yes
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1994 Provincetwon Art Association and Museum Provincetown Abstract Painting 1915-1950 From The Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1993 Hall, Lee Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage 340 No
1993 Hobbs, Robert Lee Krasner 129 Yes
1993 Thistlewood, David (editor) American Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1992 Kingsley, April The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art 416 Yes
1992 National Gallery of Art American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 545 No
1992 Wood, Paul (others) Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties 267 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Polcari, Stephen Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience 408 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Chadwick, Whitney Women, Art, and Society 384 Yes
1990 Evaul, William (Foreward); Cynthia Goodman; Lillian Orlowsky The Provocative Years: 1933-1945 the Hans Hofmann School in Provincetown 32 No
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Hughes, Robert Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists 429 No
1990 Pisano, Ronald G Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 168 Yes
1989 Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Susan Sheehan Inc American Masterworks on Paper 1800-1960 104 No
1988 Wilmerding, John American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art 208 Yes
1987 Auping, Michael Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments
(Exhibition catalog)		 302 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Danto, Arthur C The State of the Art 228 Yes
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Krane, Susan Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972 379 Yes
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1987 National Museum of Women National Mus of Women in the Arts 253 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1987 Solomon, Deborah Jackson Pollock A Biography 287 No
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Stein, Harvey Artists Observed 160 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay) Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1984 Foshay, Ellen M Reflections of Nature Flowers in American Art 202 Yes
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1983 Rose, Barbara Lee Krasner A Retrospective
(Exhibition catalog)		 184 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Messer, Thomas/Arlene Bujese Twenty-Five Artists 108 No
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Myers, John Bernard Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World 285 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1980 Barnett, Vivian Endicott The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980 526 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 544 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Cathcart, Linda L American Painting of the 1970s
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1979 Diamonstein, Barbaralee Inside New York's Art World 380 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Kahan, Mitchell Douglas (Intro) Art Inc, American Paintings from Corporate Collections Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
(Exhibition catalog)		 298 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Krauss, Rosalind E Grids Format and Image in 20th Century Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1978 Hobbs, Robert/Gail Levin Abstract Expression The Formative Years
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1977 Everson Museum of Art Provincetown Painters 1890's-1970's
(Exhibition catalog)		 289 No
1977 Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present 277 Yes
1976 Harris, Ann S/Linda Nochlin Women Artists 1550-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 368 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Munro, Eleanor Originals:American Women Artists 528 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Nemser, Cindy Art Talk Conversations with 12 Women Artists 367 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1973 Tucker, Marcia Lee Krasner/Large Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 43 Yes
1972 Ashton, Dore The New York School A Cultural Reckoning 246 No
1972 Gruen, John The Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York) 282 No
1972 Hill, M Brawley Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1970 Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor) Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings 166 No
1969 Janis, Sidney Abstract & Surrealist Art in America 146 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1964 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Drawings
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1963 Freedgood, Lillian Great Artists of America 254 Yes
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