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LEE KRASNER -- A CHRONOLOGY
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1941 | November | Invited by John Graham to participate in a show he was organizing at the MacMillen Gallery in January, 1942. Learned that Jackson Pollock was to be included and that he lived just around the corner from her. Visited him, thus beginning in a relationship that would last until his death. 

1942 | May | Signed petition to President Roosevelt along with Pollock and many other artists protesting with the deterioration of creative activity on the WPA 

  | Summer and Fall | Directed window display project for War Services Division of the WPA 
About this time joins Pollock at his studio at 46 East 8th Street

1943 | April | Employment on WPA ended when art projects are liquidated. Studied drafting to support herself until about July when Pollock's contract with Peggy Guggenheim permitted him to support her. 

1945 | October 25 | Married Jackson Pollock
  | November | Moved with him to The Springs, East Hampton, New York

1951 | October 15 to November 13 | First one-man show at Betty Parsons Gallery

1955 |  | One-man show of collages at Stable Gallery

1956 | July | Traveled to Europe for the first time. Returned to U.S. in August on news of Pollock's death in an automobile accident.

1958 | February 28 to March 22 | One-man show at Martha Jackson Gallery (Catalog introduction by B.H.Friedman)

1959 | July 24 to August 20 | One-man show at Signa Gallery, East Hampton

Executed this year two mosiac murals -- one of which is 86 feet long -- for the Uris Brothers, 2 Broadway, New York City

1960 | November 15 to December 10 | One-man show at Howard Wise Gallery (Catalog introduction by Alfonso Ossorio)

1961 | June | Traveled to Europe for second time

1962 | March | One-man show at Howard Wise Gallery

1965 | September-October | Retrospective Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London (Catalog introduction by B.H.Friedman)