Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner
  • Lee Krasner is one of the major women artists of the 20th century
  • This memoir is full of firsthand material based on interviews with Krasner and with her friends, fellow artists, gallerists, and curators
  • Often seen in her role as Pollock's companion and then widow, Krasner made important contributions to the development of American Abstract Expressionism
Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous are some of the words that describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) - the subject of this very personal memoir inspired by Ruth Appelhof's 1974 summer with her in East Hampton, Long Island. Best remembered by many as Jackson Pollock's widow, she is regarded more by 'art-world insiders' as the producer of a major body of work that influenced the evolution of contemporary art - in particular, that made by women in the 20th and 21st centuries. As a scholar and a friend, Appelhof re-examines Krasner's contributions in light of the intellectual and emotional experiences that she so candidly shared with her in weeks of interviews. In addition, Appelhof explores Lee Krasner's relationships with others - friends, art-world luminaries, artists, and other 'summer sitters' allowed into her private sanctuary - through interviews. Those recollections will offer a window into the artist's intense and idiosyncratic personal life as well as into her contributions through the groundbreaking work she produced over the course of more than six decades.

Published to accompany the Lee Krasner Retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, fromThursday 30 May-Sunday 1 September 2019, and at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from Thursday 10 October 2019-Sunday 12 January 2020, and at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, from Friday 7 February-Sunday 10 May 2020, and at the Guggenheim Bilbao, from Friday 29 May-Sunday 6 September 2020.
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Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner
  • Lee Krasner is one of the major women artists of the 20th century
  • This memoir is full of firsthand material based on interviews with Krasner and with her friends, fellow artists, gallerists, and curators
  • Often seen in her role as Pollock's companion and then widow, Krasner made important contributions to the development of American Abstract Expressionism
Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous are some of the words that describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) - the subject of this very personal memoir inspired by Ruth Appelhof's 1974 summer with her in East Hampton, Long Island. Best remembered by many as Jackson Pollock's widow, she is regarded more by 'art-world insiders' as the producer of a major body of work that influenced the evolution of contemporary art - in particular, that made by women in the 20th and 21st centuries. As a scholar and a friend, Appelhof re-examines Krasner's contributions in light of the intellectual and emotional experiences that she so candidly shared with her in weeks of interviews. In addition, Appelhof explores Lee Krasner's relationships with others - friends, art-world luminaries, artists, and other 'summer sitters' allowed into her private sanctuary - through interviews. Those recollections will offer a window into the artist's intense and idiosyncratic personal life as well as into her contributions through the groundbreaking work she produced over the course of more than six decades.

Published to accompany the Lee Krasner Retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, fromThursday 30 May-Sunday 1 September 2019, and at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from Thursday 10 October 2019-Sunday 12 January 2020, and at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, from Friday 7 February-Sunday 10 May 2020, and at the Guggenheim Bilbao, from Friday 29 May-Sunday 6 September 2020.
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Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner

Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner

by Ruth Appelhof
Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner

Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner

by Ruth Appelhof

Overview

  • Lee Krasner is one of the major women artists of the 20th century
  • This memoir is full of firsthand material based on interviews with Krasner and with her friends, fellow artists, gallerists, and curators
  • Often seen in her role as Pollock's companion and then widow, Krasner made important contributions to the development of American Abstract Expressionism
Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous are some of the words that describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) - the subject of this very personal memoir inspired by Ruth Appelhof's 1974 summer with her in East Hampton, Long Island. Best remembered by many as Jackson Pollock's widow, she is regarded more by 'art-world insiders' as the producer of a major body of work that influenced the evolution of contemporary art - in particular, that made by women in the 20th and 21st centuries. As a scholar and a friend, Appelhof re-examines Krasner's contributions in light of the intellectual and emotional experiences that she so candidly shared with her in weeks of interviews. In addition, Appelhof explores Lee Krasner's relationships with others - friends, art-world luminaries, artists, and other 'summer sitters' allowed into her private sanctuary - through interviews. Those recollections will offer a window into the artist's intense and idiosyncratic personal life as well as into her contributions through the groundbreaking work she produced over the course of more than six decades.

Published to accompany the Lee Krasner Retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, fromThursday 30 May-Sunday 1 September 2019, and at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from Thursday 10 October 2019-Sunday 12 January 2020, and at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, from Friday 7 February-Sunday 10 May 2020, and at the Guggenheim Bilbao, from Friday 29 May-Sunday 6 September 2020.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788833670164
Publisher: Officina Libraria
Publication date: 04/02/2020
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Ruth Appelhof, Executive Director Emerita of Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, earned her Ph.D. from Syracuse University having written her dissertation on American Modernism. Her museum career started at the Whitney Museum as a Helena Rubenstein Fellow. Since then she has directed museums across the country. In 2017 Appelhof was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome and is currently a Fellow at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

Foreword Helen A. Harrison 11

The Many Faces of Lee Krasner Barbara Rose 13

Chapter 1 Driving Miss Krasner 15

Early Encounters 17

Hitting the Road 18

Surprise Agenda 23

The Interviews 25

Daily Chores 26

Dinner with the Littles 27

Bathing at Louse Point with the Rosenbergs 28

Party at Victoria Barr's 29

A Visit to an Oceanfront Home 30

Chapter 2 The Tapes: Guarding Her Myth 33

Chapter 3 The Plan 47

Me, Lee, and Marlborough Gallery 48

The Corcoran Exhibition 49

David Gibbs 54

The Whitechapel Retrospective 61

Ronald Stein Makes a Play 62

Donald McKinney 64

Quilts and the Civil Rights Movement 65

Chapter 4 Beauty and the Beast 71

Too Independent-Minded 73

The WPA 75

Rimbaud and the Beast 78

The Monster 79

John Graham 82

Theosophy, Archetypes, and Mysticism 83

Turning Over the Table 84

The Artists Club 87

Leonard Siegel and the Sullivanians 88

Psychic Powers 92

In Search of Beauty 93

The Women's Movement in East Hampton 95

Reading 98

The Paintings as Self-Portraits 98

Plates 113

Chapter 5 Summer Sitters 137

Richard Howard 139

James Valliere 145

Grace Glueck 147

Donald McKinney 149

Francis V. O'Connor 166

Mark Patiky 167

Mark Schlesinger 173

Jason McCoy 183

Diana Burroughs 188

Darby Cerrone Cardonsky 192

Lisa di Liberto 195

John Post Lee 198

D. Terrance Netter 204

Chapter 6 Conclusion: The Monster Becomes the Magician 205

Guild Hall 207

Poets and Artists 209

Alfonso Ossorio 211

B. H. Friedman 213

The 1983-1984 Krasner Retrospective 215

Barbara Rose 216

The Robert Miller Team 217

Jeffrey Potter 218

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation 219

Notes 221

Index 230

List of plates 239

Photo credits 240

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