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Lee Krasner, orig. Lenore Krassner, (born Oct. 27, 1908, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died June 19, 1984, New York, N.Y.), U.S. painter. Born to Russian immigrants, in 1937 she began to study with the painter Hans Hofmann, who exposed her to the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Synthesizing these European influences, Krasner developed her own style of geometric abstraction, which she grounded in floral motifs and rhythmic gesture. In 1940 she began exhibiting her work with that of other American artists who became known as Abstract Expressionists. After her 1945 marriage to painter Jackson Pollock, Krasner and Pollock both produced a large body of work, each under the other’s influence. Krasner continued to paint throughout the 1970s.

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