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Lee Krasner Biography
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1922 - 1925 |
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Washington Irving High School, New York
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1928 |
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Attends Art Students League
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1929 |
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Graduates Women's Art School at Cooper Union
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1929 - 1932 |
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Attends National Academy of Design
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1933 |
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Attends City College and Greenwich House
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1937 - 1940 |
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Studies with Hans Hofmann
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1974 |
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Augustus St. Gaudens Medal, awarded by Cooper Union Alumni Association Lowe Fellowship for Distinction, awarded by Barnard College
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1977 |
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Honorary Award, “Long Island Women Achievers in Business and the Professions”
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1980 |
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Women's Caucus for Art, “Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts”, awarded February 1
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1980 |
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“Distinguished Contributions to Higher Education,” awarded by Stony Brook Foundation, Inc. on March 27
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1980 |
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Awarded Cooper Union Citation on May 29
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1982 |
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Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the French Minister of Culture on January 11
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1984 |
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Honorary Degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, awarded by the State University of New York, Stony Brook
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Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
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Atlantic Richfield Corporation Art Collection, Los Angeles
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
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Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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Deutche Bank, AG, New York
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Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
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Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston
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Ludwig Collection, Aachen, Germany
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
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The National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
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Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase
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Paine Webber Group, Inc., New York
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
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Reynolds House, Winston-Salem, NC
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Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2005
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Museo del Corso, Rome, Jackson Pollock – Lee Krasner (March – May) (solo)
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2004 - 2005
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Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Reuniting an Era: Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s (November 13, 2004 – January 23, 2005
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2004 - 2005
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Foro Boario Modena, Modena, Italy, Action Painting. Dal disegno all'opera, arte americana 1940-1970 (November 20, 2004 – February 27, 2005)
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2004
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Ground – Field – Surface (June 10-August 20)
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2004
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Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Picturing Hampton Gardens: A 350 Year Legacy (August 14 – October 17)
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2004
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Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, Art Across America: The WPA Years (August 15 – October 31)
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2003
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Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, Larger Than Life; Women Artists Making It Big (June 12 – August 29)
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2003
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner After Palingenesis (September 6 – October 15) (solo)
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2001 - 2003
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Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints (April 21 – June 17) (exhibition traveled to: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (November 18, 2001 – January 27, 2002); Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (November 18 – May 12); Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (January 16 –March 16, 2003)
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2001 - 2003
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960 (October 12, 2001 – January 6, 2002) (exhibition traveled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (February 16 – May 12); Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville (June 21 – September 15); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (October 26, 2002 – January 26, 2003); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (April 5 – June 29)
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2002
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Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre, Italy, Gli Irascibili e la Scuola di New York (March 21 – June 30)
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2002
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Palazzo Reale, Milan, New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Whitney Museum of American Art (March 21 – September 15)
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2002
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Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, A Family Affair: Paintings Sculpture Works on Paper (June 4 – July 25)
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2002
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Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, The Great American Nude (June 15 – September 8)
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2001
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Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, Jazz and Visual Improvisations (January 21 – April 15)
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2001
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Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserlautern, Abstrakter Expressionismus in Amerika (April 1 – June 4)(exhibition traveled to Ulmer Museum, Ulm (June 23 – August 19)
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2001
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Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, The American Way (April 21 – June 8)
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2000 - 2001
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Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Excavating Abstract Expressionism, October 14, 2000 – January 12, 2001
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2000 - 2001
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner Mural Studies (November 30, 2000 – January 6, 2001) (solo)
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1999 - 2001
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Lee Krasner Retrospective, PALINGENESIS (traveled to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines (February 26 – May 21, 2000); Akron Art Museum, Akron (June 10 – August 27); Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (October 6, 2000 – January 7, 2001) (solo)
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2000
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Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, The Hamptons Since Pollock (April 2 – May 29)
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1999 - 2000
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, The Surrealists in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School (December 14, 1999 – February 27, 2000)(traveled to Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg)
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1999 - 2000
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000 (September 26, 1999 – February 13, 2000)
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1999
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Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France, Abstractions américaines 1940 - 1960 (July 3 – October 3)
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1999
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The Fundació “la Caixa” Centre Cultural Barcelona, Barcelona, Between Art and Life: From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art (January 21 – March 28)(traveled to Schirn Kunsthalle, Römerberg, Frankfurt (April 7 – 21)
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1999
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Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, The Legacy of Hans Hofmann: Selections from Painters from the Hofmann School (February 16 – April 9)
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1999
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Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, Opening the Door: Women in Art (May 20 – October 26)
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1999
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner: The Little Image – The Large Canvas (February 9 – March 13) (solo)
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1998 - 1999
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Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA, In Her Voice: Self-Portraits by Women (December 11, 1998 – March 28, 1999)
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1998
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Robert Miller Gallery, New York, Tension (March 31 – May 2)
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1998
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Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, Lee Krasner Collages and Paintings. (January 10 – February 28) (traveled to Tasende Gallery, La Jolla, CA (March 13 – April 25) (solo)
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1997 - 1998
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Pollock-Krasner House, East Hampton, NY, Women: Peggy Guggenheim’s Shows from the 1940s (August – October) (traveled to: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (February - April 1998); The Museum of Women Artists, London (Summer 1998)
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1997
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Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, Women and Abstract Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture, 1945-59 (March 20 – April 18) (traveled to Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY (May 5 – June 23)
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1997
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Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, Going the Distance: A Generational Survey of Women Artists (April 24 – May 26)
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1997
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Gina Fiore Salon of Fine Arts, New York, Bishop, Krasner, Marden, Pollock, Brennan, Kreshtool, Lundsager, Tsao (October 17 – December 29)
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1996 - 1997
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Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Abstract Expressionism in the United States (October 10, 1996 – January 12, 1997)
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1996
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Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (June 6 – July 14) (exhibition of Abstract Expressionism that traveled to Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya (July 26 – September 16); the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (September 28 – November 17)
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1996
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GreeneNaftali Inc., New York, Women’s Work (September 6 – October 13)
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1996
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Museum of Modern Art, NY, Works on paper by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in the permanent collection (May 2, 1996)
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1996
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Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA, 20/20: The Visionary Legacy of Doris Chanin Freedman (October 25 – December 31)
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1995 - 1996
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Musée d'art et d'historie, Ville de Genève, Geneva, 1945 (October 26, 1995 – January 7, 1996)
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1995 - 1996
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Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, Lee Krasner: Collages (December 5, 1995 – January 30, 1996) (solo)
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1995
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Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Lee Krasner: The Nature of the Body, Works 1933-1984 (August 12 – October 15) (solo)
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1995
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Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, Lee Krasner Figure Drawings: Process and Transformation (August 13 – October 28) (solo)
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1995
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Knoedler and Company, New York, Seven from the Seventies: Diebenkorn, Frankenthaler, Krasner, Martin, Mitchell, Scully and Stella (February 8 – March 4)
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1995
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The Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT, The Collection of Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. (May 18 – June 11)
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1994 - 1995
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Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Abstractions: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami (November 13, 1994 – January 15, 1995)
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