Word: krasner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Krasner has been a painter for 40 years-not a woman meant to live in the shadow of anybody else. But by an accident of love, she fell into such a shade when she married a great artist, Jackson Pollock...
...Krasner accepted the traditional burdens of a genius' wife, supporting, protecting and at times nursing. At the time her own work seemed to her "irrelevant." That she maintained the germ of independence as a painter is only now becoming apparent, some 17 years after Pollock's death. In recognition of her separate stature, Manhattan's Whitney Museum this week has mounted a show of her largest and latest work...
...long subjugation to Pollock's spirit began in 1940. Manhattan's McMillan Gallery was putting on a show of Picasso, Matisse and Braque, and proposed to have three unknown Americans exhibited with them. One was Willem de Kooning, another was Jackson Pollock, the third was Lee Krasner. At the time, Krasner was 32 and totally absorbed in the bohemian life...
Stephen F. Krasner, convicted by a Massachusetts Superior Court jury on charges of making a battering ram that was used in a demonstration at M.I.T. in January 1970, petitioned the state's Supreme Judicial Court for release on bail pending appeal...
...Superior Court judge sentenced Krasner to one year in jail last week following the return of the guilty verdict. He denied bail pending appeal...