Lee Krasner by Gail Levin

Author:Gail Levin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

BY 1955, KRASNER HAD TO LOOK TO HER OWN WORK FOR SOLACE. She must have determined not to let Pollock pull her down with him into the abyss. The critic Eleanor Munro has characterized some of her collages of 1955 as “fiercely vertical compositions with titles expressive of a will not to lie down: Milkweed…Burning Candles.”47 Krasner remarked, “The fact that he drank and was extraordinarily difficult to live with was another side…. But the thing that made it possible for me to hold my equilibrium were these intervals when we had so much.”48 That her love for Pollock had become self-destructive was difficult for her to accept.

Krasner had a solo show at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery from September 26 through October 15, 1955. The gallery took its name from its first home, a former livery stable on Seventh Avenue at West Fifty-eighth Street in Manhattan. On view were a group of collages of paper and cloth attached to painted supports of pressed wood, stretched linen, or cotton duck, at least some of which were unsold works from her 1951 show at Parsons.

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