Join David Breslin, Leonard A. Lauder Curator in Charge of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Brinda Kumar, Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art to explore Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous.
Lee Krasner (1908–1984) and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) met as emerging artists in New York in the winter of 1941. They married in 1945 and moved to Springs, Long Island, where they remained entwined personally, artistically, and professionally until Pollock’s untimely death. While Pollock’s reputation historically eclipsed Krasner’s, today, both artists’ practices are rightly recognized as central to the innovations of art from the mid-twentieth century onwards
This exhibition continues and amplifies this reevaluation, on their own terms and in dynamic relation to each other.
Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous is the first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in more than twenty years. Featuring over 120 works, it is the first exhibition to look at the full arc of their careers together.