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Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner American artist Lee Krasner, 1983.

Lee Krasner

American painter
Also known as: Lenore Krasner
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Lee Krasner (born October 27, 1908, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 19, 1984, New York City) was an American painter and a pioneering figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Throughout her decades-long career, she resisted a fixed signature style and repeatedly reinvented her approach to color, form, and composition. Krasner was the sixth of seven children of Jewish emigrants from Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine). When she was 13, she decided to become an artist and...

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