Lee Krasner
A Biography
By Gail LevinLee Krasner reveals an artist who was a firebrand and trailblazer for women's rights, who led a fascinating life, and who is finally being recognized as one of the twentieth century's modernist masters. Drawing on new sources and overturning prevailing dogma, Lee Krasner offers the most dynamic, comprehensive portrait of the brilliant painter, who grew up an impoverished Jewish girl in Brooklyn and courted controversy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as a tough, unreserved, and outspoken artist and feminist.
Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum