Desert Moon
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Artwork Details
- Title: Desert Moon
- Artist: Lee Krasner (American, Brooklyn, New York 1908–1984 New York)
- Date: 1955
- Medium: Collage of oil on paper on canvas, and oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 58 × 42 1/2 in. (147.3 × 108 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Purchased with funds provided by Jo Ann and Julian Ganz Jr., Robert F. Maguire III, Leslie and John Dorman, Betty and Brack Duker, John and Joan Hotchkis, Mr. and Mrs. H. Tony Oppenheimer/Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation, Lynda and Stewart Resnick, Sheila and Wally Weisman, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross, Judith and Steaven K. Jones, Myron Laskin, Tally and Bill Mingst, and Irene Christopher through the 2000 Collectors Committee, Director's Discretionary Fund, Judith and Richard Smooke, and two anonymous donors (M.2000/82)
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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