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Lee Krasner : from Paris with love

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mercredi 22 octobre 2008 [n° 2210]

Lee Krasner : De 1933 à 1940, Lee Krasner travaille dans l’atelier de Hans Hofmann. Elle rejoint le mouvement des American Abstract Artists 1. En 1941, elle fait la connaissance de Jackson Pollock et se marie avec lui en 1945.

Ronald Stein, photographer :
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner ca. 1946
“The painting hear [sic] is unbelievably bad”

1956 She was in Paris and he was on Long Island.

Lee Krasner letter to Jackson Pollock, 1956 July 21. 1 p.; 24 x 32 cm. Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers. Archives of American Art.

“It would be wonderful to get a note from you . . . The painting hear [sic] is unbelievably bad (How are you Jackson ?).”

A few weeks later, Pollock was killed in a car crash while Krasner was still in Paris.

A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters from the Archives of American Art :

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Lee Krasner : Untitled, from the portfolio “Peace Portfolio I” 1970

Lithograph
26 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (66.7 x 54.0 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bequest of Florence Coulson Davis
2000.9.2.4
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Lee Krasner interviews, 1964 Nov. 2-1968 Apr. 11, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (abstract) :

DOROTHY SECKLER: Lee, I gather that you were born in Brooklyn, New York. I wonder if you recall any experiences in your childhood or adolescence that particularly gave you a sense that your work was to be that of an artist? Was there some family background in art? Can you trace any reason why you became an artist?

LEE KRASNER: It’s an interesting question. I’ve given it a good deal of thought through a period of years. No, I can’t find it, can’t find the background that led to it. All I can remember is that on graduation from elementary school, you had to designate what you choose to do, in order to select the right high school. The only school that majored in art which is what I wrote, was Washington Irving High School. On applying for entrance I was told that they were filled and as I lived in Brooklyn I couldn’t enter. It led to a good deal of complication as I had to go to a public high school.

DOROTHY SECKLER: So then what did you do?

LEE KRASNER: My second choice went to law, curiously enough, so I decided to be a lawyer and entered a high school in Brooklyn called Girls’ High, I believe it was, flunked everything in the first six months I was there, and reapplied once more to Washington Irving. This time I was admitted and so I started my art career, I suppose, in that sense.

transcript of a tape-recorded interview with Lee Krasner on November 2, 1964, December 14, 1967 and April 11, 1968. The interview was conducted by Dorothy Seckler for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.


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