Lee Krasner

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.
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Beyond the Fold: Colette Fu’s Pop-Ups

Posted: December 1, 2016
Category: Lee Krasner
The special exhibition Wanderer/Wonderer: Pop-Ups by Colette Fu, on view at NMWA through February 26, 2017, features ten pop-up books that explore Fu’s personal experiences through combined images of people,...
A woman with medium skin tone and dark hair wearing a black dress holds a large pop-up artist book, which unfolds in her hand and onto a table.

Art Fix Friday: October 28, 2016

Posted: October 28, 2016
Category: Lee Krasner
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Subconscious Reality: Women Surrealists in Mexico

Posted: October 27, 2016
Category: Lee Krasner
NMWA’s third-floor galleries feature works by European artists Remedios Varo (1908–1963) and Leonora Carrington (1917–2011). In 20th-century Europe, critics often dismissed women artists working within the male-dominated Surrealist movement. World...
Eerie figures walk, float, swim and stand in a pastoral landscape. A grey house sits next to a small body of water, the lawn decorated with small shrubs and trees. A pair, one dressed and one nude, pet a stripped animal as ghostly figures move through the foreground.

Art Fix Friday: October 21, 2016

Posted: October 21, 2016
Category: Lee Krasner
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Art Fix Friday: September 9, 2016

Posted: September 9, 2016
Category: Lee Krasner
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Art Fix Friday: August 19, 2016

Posted: August 19, 2016
Category: Lee Krasner
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

5 Fast Facts: Lee Krasner

Posted: November 24, 2015
Category: Lee Krasner
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Lee Krasner, whose work is on view in Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft, and Design, Midcentury and Today through February 28, 2015.
Densely layered, expressive brushwork in cream, white, and multiple shades of green cover a rectangular, horizontal canvas from edge to edge. Daubs and splashes of paint mingle with strokes resembling arcs, circles, ovals, and other curving forms to suggest movement and energy.

Lee Krasner: A Fascinating and Iconic Modernist Master

Posted: April 1, 2011
Category: Lee Krasner
For many years, Lee Krasner was overshadowed by her formidable husband, the renowned Jackson Pollock. Yet at Gail Levin shows, this independent woman of uncompromising talent and fiery genius was...
Densely layered, expressive brushwork in cream, white, and multiple shades of green cover a rectangular, horizontal canvas from edge to edge. Daubs and splashes of paint mingle with strokes resembling arcs, circles, ovals, and other curving forms to suggest movement and energy.