Philadelphia, PA
Details
- Dimensions
- 30.75ʺW × 0.25ʺD × 25ʺH
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Artist
- Lee Krasner
- Period
- 1970s
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Lithograph
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Blue
- Condition Notes
- In very good condition with minor wear conducive with age. In very good condition with minor wear conducive with age. less
- Description
-
1974 Original Lee Krasner Large Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition Lithograph.
Size: 25 x 30 3/4 inches
In … more 1974 Original Lee Krasner Large Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition Lithograph.
Size: 25 x 30 3/4 inches
In very good condition with minor wear conducive with age.
Lee Krasner was the sixth of seven children born to Russian-Jewish immigrants on October 27, 1908, who emigrated from Bessarabia. Growing up in immigrant, Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York, Krasner was born Lena Krasner, but changed her name several times in the early portion of her life, eventually settling on Lee Krasner by the late 1940s. Art historians have pondered if Krasner used the abbreviated "Lee" as an attempt to disguise her gender.
By the young age of 13, Krasner had already set her sights on becoming a professional artist, which was an unusual career choice for an immigrant and a woman. She eagerly applied to and was pleased to be accepted by Washington Irving High School, the only New York City public high school at the time that allowed women to study art. Krasner became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, a group formed in New York City in 1936 to promote and help the public appreciate abstract art. It was then that she met Pollock, moving in with him in 1941. The pair married in 1945, and the duties of promoting and managing the practical aspects of Pollock's career fell to her. While Krasner generously embraced her new responsibilities, it meant her own career took a back seat to the increasingly famous Pollock. Krasner's artwork and biography continue to inspire generations of painters and she has become revered especially amongst women artists. Throughout her career, she directly confronted the dominant stereotype that "women can't paint" and struggled within the Abstract Expressionist movement, which prized masculinity and heroic figures such as Pollock. less
Philadelphia, PA
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