SOURCES AND PICTURE CREDITS
QUOTATIONS
„Painting is not separate from life […]“, Lee Krasner, 1960, quoted from: Louise Elliott Rago, »We Interview Lee Krasner«, in: School Arts, Bd. 60, September 1960, p. 32.
„I was given this group of artists – 'misfits' […]“, Lee Krasner, 1967, quoted from: Anne Bowen Parsons, »Interview with Lee Krasner«, 23.8.1967, p. 1, Anne Bowen Parsons collection of interviews on art, 1967/68, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
„You can have giant physical size with no statement on it […]“, Lee Krasner, 1979, quoted from: Deborah Daw, »Lee Krasner. On Climbing a Mountain of Porcelain«, 1979, Lee Krasner Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., box 10, folder 9, p. 4.
„I am never free of the past, […]“, Lee Krasner, 1979, quoted from: Eleanor Munro, »Lee Krasner«, in: dies., Originals. American Women Artists, New York 1979, pp. 100–120, here p. 119.
„The one constant in life is change.“, Lee Krasner, 1977, quoted from: Gaby Rodgers, »She Has Been There Once or Twice. An Interview with Lee Krasner«, 1977, Lee Krasner Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., box 9, folder 48 (microfilm 3774).
ILLUSTRATIONS
© The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 for the reproduced works by Lee Krasner.
© Succession Picasso/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019 for the reproduced work by Pablo Picasso.
Lee Krasner
Self-Portrait, ca. 1928
Oil on linen, 76,5 x 63,8cm
The Jewish Museum, New York. Purchase: Esther Leah Ritz Bequest; B. Gerald Cantor, Lady Kathleen Epstein and Louis E. and Rosalyn M. Schecter Gifts, by exchange; Fine Arts Acquisition Committee Fund; and Miriam Handler Fund, 2008-32
© courtesy Jewish Museum, New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Combat, 1965
Oil on canvas, 179 x 410,4 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1992
© licensed by Copyright Agency, 2018.
Lee Krasner
Nude Study from Life, 1938
Charcoal on paper, 62,9 x 50,8 cm
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Composition, 1949
Oil on Canvas, 96.7 x 70.6 cm
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of the Aaron E. Norman Fund Inc., 1959, 1959-31-1
© Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of the Aaron E. Norman Fund Inc., 1959, 1959-31-1.
Lee Krasner
Siren, 1966
Oil on canvas, 128,6 x 206,1 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981, 86.2768
© Photo: Cathy Carver, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Lee Krasner
Imperative, 1976
Oil, charcoal and paper on canvas, 127 x 127 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.59.1
© courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Lee Krasner
Photo of the War-Service Window, 1942
Original collage is missing
Photomontage and collage, dimensions unknown
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner Papers
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Lee Krasner
Shattered Color, 1947
Oil on Canvas, 53,3 x 66 cm
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
© courtesy Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York; Photo: Gary Mamay.
Lee Krasner
Abstract No. 2, 1946–1948
Oil on canvas, 52 x 59 cm
IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Generalitat
© courtesy IVAM.
Lee Krasner
Mosaic Table, 1947
Mosaic and mixed mediums on wood, 116,8 cm diameter
Private collection
© courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Stop and Go, 1949/50
Oil and enamel on panel, 116,2 cm diameter
Private Collection
© courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Burning Candles, 1955
Oil, paper, cloth and canvas collage on linen, 147,6 x 99,1 cm
Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase Collage, State University of New York, gift of Roy R. Neuberger.
© Jim Frank.
Lee Krasner
Bird Talk, 1955
Oil, paper and canvas collage on cotton duck, 147,3 x 142,2 cm
Private collection, New York
© Sotheby’s.
Lee Krasner
Milkweed, 1955
Collage of oil, paper, and canvas on canvas; 209.23 x 146.69 cm
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1976 (K1976:5)
© Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London.
Lee Krasner
Bald Eagle, 1955
Oil, paper and canvas collage on linen, 195,6 x 130,8 cm
Collection of Audrey Irmas, Los Angeles
© Photo: Jonathan Urban.
Lee Krasner
Imperfect Indicative, 1976
Collage on canvas, 198,1 x 182,9 cm
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Nude Study from Life, 1940
Charcoal on paper, 62,9 x 48 cm
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Embrace, 1956
Oil on canvas, 162,6 x 144,8 cm
Private collection
© Foto: David Stach.
Lee Krasner
Prophecy, 1956
Oil on cotton duck, 147.6 x 86.4 cm
Private Collection
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
Museum of Modern Art, New York
© Succession Picasso/ DACS, London 2019, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/ Scala, Florenz.
Lee Krasner
Three in Two, 1956
Oil on canvas, 190,5 x 147,3 cm
Private collection, San Francisco
© Foto: Kevin Candland.
Lee Krasner
Another Storm, 1963
Oil on canvas, 238,8 x 447,7 cm
Private collection, courtesy Nevill Keating Pictures
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Polar Stampede, 1960
Oil on canvas, 243,8 x 412,4 cm
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Palingenesis, 1971
Oil on canvas, 208,3 x 340.4 cm
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Olympic, 1974
Oil on canvas, 209,6 x 179 cm
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
© courtesy Kasmin Gallery New York, NY.
Lee Krasner
Through Blue, 1963
Oil on canvas, 191,8 x 147,3 cm
Private collection, New York
© Foto: Christopher Stach.
EXCERPTS FROM THE INTERVIEWS WITH LEE KRASNER:
Interview with Lee Krasner and Larry Rivers, 1977
© Courtesy of the Larry Rivers Foundation and NYU Special Collections, New York University.
Lee Krasner interview by Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield, 1981
© Copyright of Blumenthal/ Horsfield, courtesy of Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lee Krasner interview with Barbara Novak, c.1979
© Courtesy of WGBH Media Library and Archives.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF LEE KRASNER
Irving Penn
Lee Krasner, Springs, NY, 1972
© The Irving Penn Foundation.
Unknown photographer
Lee Krasner, ca. 1938/40
© Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner Papers, um 1905–1984, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Fred Prater
Lee Krasner at the WPA Pier, New York City, where she was working on a WPA commission, c. 1940
Lee Krasner Papers, c.1905-1984. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Hans Namuth
Lee Krasner in her studio in the barn, Springs, 1962
Lee Krasner Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
© 1991 Hans Namuth Estate. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography
Unknown photographer
Lee Krasner, ca. 1938.
EDITORIAL FILM FILES
Rick Ray
Park Avenue and the newly-finished Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, NY, ca. 1940
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Robert Cicchetti
Coastal scene with Montauk Lighthouse on Atlantic Ocean, Long Island, New York.
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