Word: pollocks
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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...
...knew De Kooning, but had not heard of Pollock. She looked up his address, found he was living only a block away. "Being of an impulsive nature," she recalls, "I lunged right over. I walked up five floors, knocked, and I realized that I had met this man four years earlier at a party-he was a lousy dancer." Then she looked at his paintings. "I almost died," she remembers...
...paintings were taken from the Mt.Auburn St. apartment of Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of Regional Planning. The three works are worth an estimated $500,000. The most valuable of the three works is a Pollock black and white entitled...