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Birth
1908 (Brooklyn, New York)
Death
1984 (Springs, New York)
Lived/Active
New York/Massachusetts
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abstract expression, gestural, collage
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Abstract Expressionism
Painters of Nudes
Modernism
Women Artists
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A major figure among 20th-century New York abstract painters, Lee Krasner became an acknowledged leader of the Abstract Expressionists. However, as the wife of Jackson Pollock, who emerged as the leading figure of that period, she was overshadowed by his accomplishments, and her reputation as an artist did not take hold until a decade after his death in 1956
Born into a strong matriarchal Russian Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Krasner was raised in a highly cultured environment. In (showing 500 of 26260 characters). |
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