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Lee Krasner

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Lee KrasnerUnited States, 1908 - 1984

• Krasner was born in 1908, to Russian-Jewish refugees in Brooklyn, New York.

• Her formal education in the arts was extensive, starting in 1926 at the Women’s Art School at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, then in 1928 studying with the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design.

• Krasner worked as a mural painter for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project in the 1930s. She also studied at the City College, Greenwich House, and with German abstract artist Hans Hoffman in New York.

• Krasner was one of few female artists on the frontlines of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Prior to her marriage to Jackson Pollack in 1945, she was a well-connected and respected artist but was overshadowed by her husband during his lifetime.

• She was an active member the Artists Union and American Abstract Artists.

• Much of her own early work, as well as Pollack’s discarded works, were cut and repurposed by Krasner into collages. Though she is well known for her collages, she was also an accomplished painter and printmaker, creating 23 print editions.

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Lee Krasner
1974