Lee Krasner
- Also known as
- Lenore Krasner
- Lee Krasner Pollock
- Active in
- East Hampton, New York, United States
- Biography
One of the first-generation Abstract Expressionists, and a painter whose considerable achievements have been recognized only recently, Lee Krasner was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received art training at Cooper Union, the Art Students League, and the National Academy of Design in New York. From 1933 to 1940 she studied with Hans Hofmann and was significantly influenced by her introduction to early twentieth-century European modernists such as Matisse, Picasso, and Mondrian. During the 1930s Krasner participated in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project. In 1945 Krasner married artist Jackson Pollock.
National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)