Lee Krasner, “The Seasons” (1957). Credit… Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, via Whitney Museum of American Art. [New York Times caption and illustration]
For many of Krasner’s contemporaries — Perle Fine, Anne Ryan, Hedda Sterne, Michael (Corinne) West, to name a few — money and fame weren’t motivating factors because they weren’t even within the realm of possibility. With paths to a professional career largely blocked by a gallery system imbued with the myth that only men were serious artists, their work was wonderfully untainted by the concerns of commerce. Self-realization was its own reward.
Lee Krasner, “Self-Portrait” (1930). Credit… Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, via The Jewish Museum. [New York Times caption and illustration]
(Mary Gabriel, “A Superb American Artist Is Finally Getting Her Due,” New York Times, 9-25-26)
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