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Lee Krasner
PainterKnown for:
Abstract Expressionism; the Umber series
Education:
Cooper Union; National Academy of Design; studied under Hans Hofmann
Lee Krasner studied with Hans Hofmann and was among the earliest American painters to engage seriously with European abstraction, but her career was consistently overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock. After his death in 1956, she moved into his studio and began making large-scale paintings - the Umber series, the Night Journeys - that were among the most physically ambitious of her career. She established the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which has distributed more than $60 million to artists since 1984.
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Worked in oil on canvas, linen, cotton duck, and masonite; applied paint with palette knife, stiff brush, and directly from tubes
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Oil paint — pigment suspended in a drying oil, typically linseed — has been the dominant painting medium since the fifteenth century. It dries slowly, allowing extended blending, and produces a rich, luminous surface. Available from dozens of manufacturers at student through professional grades.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
