
Lee KrasnerVerenigde Staten, 1908–1984Mag men het zien?
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After the death of her husband Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner took over his studio located in a barn on their property. With this expansion of studio space, she began creating large-scale paintings like Celebration, using expansive gestures to express her feelings on canvas.
Cleveland Museum of Art
1940s–1950s
Signing “L.K.” instead of a name
She often does not sign her works at all, signs with the gender-neutral initials “L.K.”, or blends her signature into the painting so as not to emphasize that she is a woman and the wife of another painter.
1958
Commission for two murals at 2 Broadway
She is commissioned to create two abstract murals for an office building at 2 Broadway in Manhattan; according to the art historian Barbara Rose, working on the collage maquettes let her translate her winged, floral and organic forms into monumental abstractions on a public scale.
1959
Her mother dies
Her mother, Anna (Chane), née Weiss, dies.