More of this story Sep 6, 2008
She's been commissioned to do a lot of dog paintings, and even recreated the Lee Krasner paintings in the Pollock film. Her new work, featured in an exhibit at M. J. Higgins Fine Art, is personal and complex. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Cline+Dale Fine Art gallery to close May 31, 2008
Dale plans to offer top-tier living artists such as Wolf Kahn, Herb Jackson and John Van Alstine, and others such as Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell and Lee Krasner. "Being an artist is the hardest job in the world. Being a dealer is No. 2," Dale said. (AZCentral -- Business)
Bacon painting sets postwar auction record May 15, 2008
Tom Wesselmann, Lee Krasner, Brice Marden, Piero Manzoni and Takashi Murakami set records as well, with Murakami obliterating his old mark of $2. 7-million as My Lonesome Cowboy fetched a whopping $15. (Globe and Mail)
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The permanent collection includes work by Salvador Dali, Milton Avery and Lee Krasner. 3001 Riverside Park Drive; ; 772-231-0707. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Pollock or Not? Can Fractals Spot a Fake Masterpiece? Nov 3, 2007
The Pollock Krasner Foundation, which represents the estates of Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner, commissioned Taylor last year to examine six of 32 alleged Pollock drip paintings for fractal clues as to whether the master dripper (dead since 1956) had truly created them; the paintings, discovered in 2003, turned up fractalless. Upon learning the news, physicists Katherine Jones Smith and Harsh Mathur of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, published their own Nature paper... (Scientific American)
Rule Breakers Sep 8, 2007
"Lee Krasner Action Figure" by Ewing-based artist Arlene Milgram. Corsets of steel couldn't hold back the 'Dangerous Women' of the art world between the two world wars. (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
Artists fight for a fading way of life Sep 4, 2007
Illustrator Norman Rockwell and abstract expressionists Franz Kline and Lee Krasner were among those shaped by lessons in the blazing light of the dunes. The Hawthorne School of Art is now at risk of being swallowed by development. (Boston Globe)
Exhibition brings Pollock mystery to life Sep 2, 2007
The exhibition's ostensible main purpose is to explore the context of friendship among Pollock; his wife, Lee Krasner; the New York photographer and graphic artist Herbert Matter; and his wife, the painter Mercedes Matter. (The latter two were the parents of Alex Matter. (Boston Globe)
Did Pollock paint them? It's the public's turn to decide Sep 2, 2007
"Pollock Matters" explores the relationship between the two couples, Herbert Matter and his artist wife, Mercedes, and Pollock and abstract painter Lee Krasner. To that end, the galleries feature photographs and paintings by the Matters, Krasner's canvases, copies of journals, letters, and a handful of undisputed Pollocks, including the MFA's "Number 10.". (Boston Globe)
Now you can decide for yourself Aug 26, 2007
She's spent years exploring the connections among the famous Abstract Expressionist Pollock, his wife, the painter Lee Krasner, and two close friends, the photographer Herbert Matter and his artist wife, Mercedes. Landau's research, which has taken her from the Matter archives at Stanford University to Switzerland to visit with relatives of the late photographer, will be published in the exhibition's catalog. (Boston Globe)
Possible Pollocks are quietly being sold Apr 5, 2007
Information about the sales came to light recently through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, which guards the legacies of the artist and of his wife, the painter Lee Krasner. The foundation's chairman, Charles Bergman, was told by the New York gallery owner Ronald Feldman at a lunch in January 2006 that he had bought an unspecified number of the paintings outright and owned some jointly with Matter, according to the foundation's lawyer, Ronald Spencer. (International Herald Tribune)
Roy G. Biv Pays a Call Mar 22, 2007
Their circle of friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Tennessee Williams, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler. It seems only natural that Ms. Smith decided to embrace the arts on a more personal level. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
A Vivid Account Mar 3, 2007
REVIEW / SFMOMA exhibition demonstrates how large Picasso loomed over American art. " It sends the visitor away with a sense of every modern artwork as the product of many minds, however many hands may have formed it. Picasso and American Art: Paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Through May 28. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco. (415) 357-4000, . E-mail Kenneth Baker at . This article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle FromColma Buick... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
BC's McMullen Museum of Art courts controversy with 'Pollock Matters' Feb 18, 2007
The new exhibition is meant to explore the relationship of Pollock, his wife, Lee Krasner, and the Matters. Herbert Matter's photography will be featured, as will the paintings of his wife, Mercedes. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Purported Pollock Paintings: Still a Pickle Feb 1, 2007
What we re talking about now is newly discovered works of a magnitude that is unprecedented in terms of numbers, said Ronald D. Spencer, a lawyer for the foundation, which was created by Lee Krasner. It requires the foundation to rethink its involvement in Pollock authorship questions. (New York Times)
Boston College McMullen Museum of Art Exhibition Explores Acclaimed Artist Jackson Pollock's Association with Photographer Herbert Matter Jan 30, 2007
They met through their future wives -- painters Lee Krasner and Mercedes Carles, respectively. The friendship ended in 1956, when Pollock died at age 44 in an automobile accident. (PR Newswire)
Picasso's Influence On American Artists Jan 22, 2007
But plenty of artists were moved to expand on Picasso's themes, especially after seeing his 1927 painting "The Studio." Works by Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner and David Smith all on display at the Whitney show how American artists were 00004000 taking steps forward. "You see at the bottom of the legs of the table there are those little circles," Fitzgerarld said. (CBS News)
Looking Back Jan 12, 2007
" The cosmos also reconnects past relationships for higher purposes, to provoke changes in the arts or literature (Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Henry Miller and Anais Nin), or advance science (the Curies). In the case of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a love affair that Ms. Wojton believes carried over from a previous life pushed the former president into the self-examination he had been lacking for years. "Here he was with everything in the world and he risked it all to have an affair,"... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Pollock painting sold for record $140m Nov 3, 2006
In 1944 Pollock married his lover Lee Krasner and in 1945 they moved to Springs in East Hampton, on Long Island, New York. To cope with depression he became interested in psychotherapy and in Carl Jung's theory of primitive archetypes, which formed the basis of his work between 1938 and 1944. (Guardian Unlimited)
'HANDLEY STYLE' LEFT TO VIEWER Jul 30, 2006
We would like to be Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, because it is so neat doing artwork with your spouse, mentor and best friend. Creating art can take a lot of energy. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Here's to the ladies Jun 19, 2006
In Alison Van Pelt's "The Women Artists," the viewer engages with enormous portraits (some 108 by 94 inches) of notable women artists of the 20th century including Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner and Georgia O'Keeffe. Painted in Van Pelt's signature blurred style, some of these giant faces are more recognizable at first than others. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Cascades of creativity Mar 16, 2006
Gillespie knew the 1940s biggies: Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning. In fact, when an Orlando friend, Wally Harper, took her to see the movie Pollock a few years back, he says that, as they watched, "She'd make comments about the people being portrayed in the film because they were all personal friends. "She'd sit there saying things like, 'That's a really good portrayal'; 'She didn't look like that'; 'Her parties were even more exciting than that'; 'That person was really like... (Orlando Sentinel)
Trove of Pollocks found in New York may be fake Feb 10, 2006
The foundation, set up under the will of Pollock's widow Lee Krasner, said it retained Professor Richard Taylor of the University of Oregon's Department of Physics to test six of the 32 paintings in question. Taylor said his study found "significant differences between the patterns of the six paintings ... (and) Pollock's paintings that we have analysed.". (Reuters UK -- Entertainment)
