Authors: Gail Levin
Jacket design by Mumtaz Mustafa
Jacket photographs: portrait of Lee Krasner, 1962, by Hans Namuth
Various family photographs throughout the text and in the photograph insert are courtesy of members of Lee Krasner's family.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Mark Patiky for the photograph on the title-page spread.
LEE KRASNER
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levin, Gail
Lee Krasner: A biography / Gail Levin.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-06-184525-3
1. Krasner, Lee, 1908â1984. 2. PaintersâUnited StatesâBiography. 3. Painters' spousesâUnited StatesâBiography. I. Title.
ND237.K677L48 Â 2011
759.13âdc22
[B]
2010046347
EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-207462-1
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To avoid confusion, the author has decided to spell the artist's surname consistently as
Krasner
and to merely signal when she changed the spelling, dropping the second
s
.