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Happy Birthday Lee Krasner!
…met came to know, and was influenced by avant-garde artists and critics. Lee Krasner In 1934 the Public Works of Art Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) hired Krasner to…
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Lee Krasner Paints Gansevoort Street
Although she is best known for her Abstract Expressionist paintings, Lee Krasner never ceased to transform her artistic style throughout her career. Born in 1908 to Russian Jewish parents, Krasner…
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Hans Hofmann and the Village
…Around that time Hofmann moved to 177 West 4th Street (in the GVHD). 177 West 4th Street today. In 1942 Lee Krasner introduced Hofmann to Jackson Pollock. According to Krasner,…
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The Ninth Street Five
…of their time. Those women, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, and Joan Mitchell, were at the very core of the intellectual, artistic, and social advancement of…
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Jackson Pollock’s Greenwich Village
…Greene and Mercer Streets. When Charles and his wife moved out, Pollock’s lover and future wife Lee Krasner moved in. Unfortunately, this building has since been demolished and replaced. 46 Carmine Street…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…of “Mother’s Day.” (l. to r., top to bottom) Howe, Irwin, Jacobs, Joplin, Keller, Krasner, Lazarus. To vote for your top 10 picks, click here. Marie Jenney Howe — Leading…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…of “Mother’s Day.” (l. to r., top to bottom) Howe, Irwin, Jacobs, Joplin, Keller, Krasner, Lazarus. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Marie Jenney Howe — Leading…
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Finding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…Republic” and founder of “Mother’s Day.” (l. to r., top to bottom) Howe, Irwin, Jacobs, Joplin, Keller, Krasner, Lazarus. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Marie Jenney…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 49 East 10th, Home of Jackson Pollock
…Elaine de Kooning, and Pollock’s wife, Lee Krasner. Krasner & Pollock in Springs The area south of Union Square was a center of much of this activity. 49 East 10th…
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Remembering Jackson Pollock
…together, living in a small, cheap, unheated apartment at 46 East 8th Street. When Charles and his wife moved out, Pollock’s lover Lee Krasner moved in. Pollock also briefly lived…
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Preserving and Honoring Women’s History
…Kooning, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, and Joan Mitchell formulated the concept for their nearby Ninth Street Show, an event that altered the trajectory of art history and precipitated…
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The WPA’s Hudson Square Home
…revolutionaries in the field. Some notable artists who were employed by the Federal Art Project include Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. Artist Margaret Marshall, working on sculpture…
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Jewelry Makers of the Village and their Provincetown Summer Studios
…started not in Greenwich Village but in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as its name implies. Provincetown was also the chosen summer home of abstract expressionists, like Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner,…
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South of Union Square: An “Unrivaled Artistic Mecca” Needs Landmark Protections
…Jane Freilicher, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchel, Thomas Nast, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Indiana, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Winslow Homer, Joan Mitchel, Lee Krasner, Helen Levitt, Chaim Gross, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline,…
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Alfonso Ossorio: Artist, Collector, Congregator
…making him a fellow neighborhood artist. When Ossorio traveled, Pollock and his wife, artist Lee Krasner, would often stay at Ossorio’s studio on MacDougal Alley. They often received shipments of…
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On This Spot: Highlighting Women Artists
…York City a cultural, creative epicenter. Make sure to check out the rest of On This Spot’s incredible collection of documentaries! Their other subjects, including Lee Krasner, the Village Voice,…
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The Genius of Joan Mitchell
…story of the man as the creator while his female counterpart is the muse. Fortunately, Joan Mitchell was not your typical female. Mitchell, as well as her compatriots Lee Krasner,…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, Mexican Muralists Remake American Art: David Alfaro Siqueiros and the Experimental Workshop
…of the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Jackson Pollock’s Landscape with Steer (around 1936-37) The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence There is…
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Jackson Pollock’s Old Stomping Grounds
…Greenwich Village apartment at 46 East 8th Street with his Brother Sande, with whom he would live until 1942 when his love Lee Krasner moved in. This floor-through studio, located…
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The Artist’s World in Pictures A guided gallery tour by co-author Gloria S. McDarrah
…share and exchange ideas and opinions, including Willem deKooning, Franz Kline, Ad Reinhardt, James Brooks, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Tworkov, Alfred Leslie, Milton Resnick, Lee Krasner, Philip…
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Twelve Essential Reads About Greenwich Village and the East Village
…steps away from here, on Washington Place. NINTH STREET WOMEN by Mary Gabriel. The sub-title says it all – Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 95 East 10th Street/48 Third Avenue
…George Segal, Elaine de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, and Lee Krasner were much more up-and-coming, and their presence in the 10th Street Galleries helped to secure their eventual rise…
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GVSHP Oral History: Paula DeLuccia Poons
…from females, like Grace Hartigan and Lee Krasner, and Elaine de Kooning, and they had a big Jules Olitski painting that I remember that I really liked. Big yellow painting.”…
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The Art of Frederick Brosen
…other notable museums across the country. Brosen earned his M.F.A from Pratt Institute and has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants and the Silver Medal of Honor by the Royal…
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