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Lee Krasner
(1908-1984)
Synopsis
Lee Krasner was born October 27, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York. In 1934, the WPA hired her to paint murals. From 1937 to 1940, she studied under Hans Hoffmann.
She married fellow artist Jackson Pollock in 1945. In the 1950s, she created her Night Journey series.
Lee krasner a biography
She had a retrospective solo exhibition in London in 1965 and a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1975. Krasner died on June 19, 1984, in New York City.
Early Years
Abstract painter and collage artist Lee Krasner was born Lena Krassner on October 27, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York.
Growing up, she liked to be called Lenore, and later shortened the nickname to Lee, while also removing the second "s" from her last name.
Krasner's parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants who fled to the United States to escape anti-Semitism and the Russo-Japanese War.
Krasner was the youngest of six children, and the only one of her siblings to be born in the United States. When s