Lee Krasner

Major Abstract Expressionist painter Lee Krasner made bold, graphic canvases that embraced a cut-up collage style and bright, gestural brushwork. She shared an interest in rhythm and the material properties of paint with her husband, Jackson Pollock. Krasner’s large-scale canvases reflect these concerns as well as an infatuation with hieroglyphics and natural forms. The artist also embraced ovular shapes and pink hues. Krasner studied at the Women’s Art School at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League. She worked as a muralist for the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, a program that was foundational to many of her Ab-Ex contemporaries. Krasner’s work belongs in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Artizon Museum in Tokyo.