Lee Krasner (24 page)

Krasner and Pollock in his studio, 1950. Pollock stands in front of his painting
Gothic
; his canvas
The Key
(1946) is visible on the right side of this photograph by Larry Larkin, a portraitist and collector.

Lee Krasner, Stella Pollock, and Jackson Pollock in the Springs kitchen, Thanksgiving, 1950.

Jackson's brother, Sande McCoy, and his wife, Arloie, posing with the artist James Brooks. Brooks took over the Eighth Street studio when Pollock and Krasner moved to East Hampton.

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock hold Raphael Gribetz, summer 1952. Joel Gribetz, M.D., and his wife, Helen, rented the house next door for the summer. She recalls Krasner as “most gracious.” Photograph by Willard B. Golovin. Courtesy of the Archives of American Art.

Lee Krasner in her Springs Studio in 1962. A series of drawings on paper in watercolor, crayon, pastel and oilstick from that time are visible on the windowed studio wall. Her canvas,
Earth Green
of 1957, is visible on the right wall. Photograph by Hans Namuth, Courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona © 1991 Hans Namuth Estate.

The writer May Natalie Tabak and her husband, art critic Harold Rosenberg, both once shared an apartment with Lee and Igor. Later, May was a witness at the Pollocks' wedding and Harold wrote about Pollock without naming him in his famous article, “The American Action Painters,” published in December 1952. Photograph by Maurice Berezov.

In the Spring of 1954, Patsy Southgate was a mother with two young children when she saw that Krasner was trapped in the house. She offered to give her driving lessons in return for painting instruction, so Krasner finally learned to drive. Photograph by Robert Beverly Hale, Springs, 1956.

Lee Krasner, the painter and critic Paul Brach, and Jackson Pollock on the beach in East Hampton, New York, c. 1955, photographed by Miriam Schapiro.

Lee Krasner, Abby and Bob Friedman, Annalee and Barnett Newman (in cap), and Sheridan Lord standing in the back next to Newman, Thanksgiving 1957, probably photographed by Cile Lord. Courtesy of B.H. Friedman.

Perle Fine, Willem de Kooning, and Ruth Kligman, summer 1958. It is not known if Krasner knew that Fine, whom she had convinced to move to East Hampton, was spending time with de Kooning, but because she lived in the small town, she surely heard that Kligman had moved on after Pollock's death to have an affair with de Kooning, who was seen as Pollock's chief rival. Photograph by Fine's husband, Maurice Berezov.

Krasner standing on a ladder in front of an early state of
The Gate
(CR 342), July or August 1959. Photograph by Hallie Erskine.

Lee Krasner with Fritz Bultman (and Alfonso Ossorio in the background) at a party at the New York home of Martha Jackson, autumn 1959. After Jackson's death, Lee spent several months living with Fritz and Jeanne Bultman in their townhouse on East Ninety-fifth street. This photograph was taken the year after Krasner showed with Martha Jackson.