Inscription: Signed and dated (verso): Krasner / 48
the artist, Springs, N.Y. (from 1948; her gift to Braider); Mr. and Mrs. Donald T. Braider, Sag Harbor, N.Y. (until his d. 1976); Mrs. Donald T. Braider, Sag Harbor, N.Y. (1976–86; her gift to MMA)
East Hampton, N.Y. House of Books and Music. August 15, 1954, no catalogue.
London. Whitechapel Art Gallery. "Lee Krasner: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages," September–October 1965, no. 8.
City Art Gallery, York. "Lee Krasner: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages," April 30–May 21, 1966, no. 8.
Hull, England. Ferens Art Gallery. "Lee Krasner: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages," May 28–June 18, 1966, no. 8.
Victoria Street Gallery, Nottingham. "Lee Krasner: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages," June 28–July 16, 1966, no. 8.
City Art Gallery, Manchester. "Lee Krasner: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages," August 20–September 10, 1966, no. 8.
Arts Council Gallery, Cardiff. "Lee Krasner: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages," September 17–October 8, 1966, no. 8.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective," November 28, 1983–January 8, 1984, not in catalogue.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective," February 9–April 1, 1984, not in catalogue.
Norfolk, Va. Chrysler Museum of Art. "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective," April 26–June 17, 1984, not in catalogue.
Phoenix Art Museum. "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective," August 23–October 7, 1984, not in catalogue.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective," December 19, 1984–February 2, 1985, not in catalogue.
New Brunswick, N. J. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. "Abstract Expressionism, Other Dimensions: An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940–1965," March 25–June 13, 1990, no. 60.
Whitney Museum of Art at Philip Morris, New York. "Abstract Expressionism, Other Dimensions: An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940–1965," October 5–December 5, 1990, unnumbered cat.
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends," February 28–May 23, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 66).
New York. Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College. "Reclaiming Artists of the New York School: Toward a More Inclusive View of the 1950s," March 18–April 22, 1994, no. 14 (p. 21).
New York. Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, CUNY. "Women and Abstract Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture, 1945-1959," March 20–April 17, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 20).
East Hampton, N.Y. Guild Hall. "Women and Abstract Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture, 1945-1959," May 10–June 15, 1997, unnumbered cat.
East Hampton, N. Y. Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. "Lee Krasner: Little Image Paintings, 1946–1950," August 1–October 31, 2008, no. 6.
Jewish Museum, New York. "From the Margins: Lee Krasner / Norman Lewis, 1945-1952," September 12, 2014–February 1, 2015, unnumbered cat. (p. 45).
Paris. Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Galerie 1. "Women in Abstraction," May 19–August 23, 2021, unnumbered cat. (p. 333).
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. "Women in Abstraction," October 22, 2021–February 27, 2022, unnumbered cat.
Potsdam. Museum Barberini. "The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945," June 4–September 25, 2022, no. 28.
Vienna. Albertina Modern. "Ways of Freedom. Von Jackson Pollock bis Maria Lassnig," October 15, 2022–January 22, 2023, unnumbered cat. (p. 41).
Jeffrey Wechsler. Abstract Expressionism, Other Dimensions : An Introduction to Small Scale Painterly Abstraction in America, 1940-1965. Exh. cat., Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables. New Brunswick, N. J., 1989, p. 99, no. 60, fig. 80.
Anna C. Chave. "Pollock and Krasner: Script and Postscript." Anthropology and Aesthetics 24 (Autumn 1993), p. 96, fig. 2.
Constance Schwartz inIntimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends. Exh. cat., Nassau County Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1993, p. 6.
Franklin Hill Perrell inIntimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends. Exh. cat., Nassau County Museum of Art. Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1993, p. 17, ill. p. 66.
Rose Slivka. "From the Studio." East Hampton Star (April 29, 1993), ill. p. II–7.
Ellen G. Landau. Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1995, p. 105, no. 216, ill. (upside down).
Ann Eden Gibson. Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics. New Haven, 1997, p. 135, fig. 147.
Emile Augier. Abstractions Américaines 1940–1960. Exh. cat., Musée Fabre. Paris, 1999, ill. p. 57 (color).
Helen A. Harrison inLee Krasner: Little Image Paintings, 1946–1950. Exh. cat., Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. East Hampton, 2008, p. v.
Gail Levin inLee Krasner: Little Image Paintings, 1946–1950. Exh. cat., Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. East Hampton, 2008, pp. 5, 7, no. 6, ill. pp. 5 (color), 13 (color).
Benjamin Genocchio. "Celebrating Centennial of Krasner in a Show of Her Art." New York Times (September 14, 2008), p. L10.
Daniel Zamani inThe Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945. Ed. Ortrud Westheider, Michael Philipp, and Daniel Zamani. Exh. cat., Museum Barberini, Potsdam. Munich, 2022, pp. 60, 239, no. 28, ill. (color) pp. 94, 196–97 (detail).
Lee Krasner (American, Brooklyn, New York 1908–1984 New York)
ca. 1929–30
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