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O'Connor + Marlborough LEE KRASNER -- A CHRONOLOGY [[3 COLUMNED TABLE]] | YEAR | MONTH | EVENT | | --- | --- | --- | | --- | --- | Born in Brooklyn, New York. | | 1926-28 | --- | Studied at Cooper Union (Woman's Art School) un. Hinton, Victor Perard | | 1928 | July | Studied at the Art Students League under George Bridgman | | 1929-32 | --- | Studied at the National Academy of Design under Charles Curran and Ivan Olinsky [[?]] Dickenson - Ivan Kroll | | 1933 | --- | Studied at City College of New York Greenwich House ([[?]] Job) | | 1934 | January to March | Employed as an artist on the Public Works of Art Project -- the first of the New Deal art projects. | | --- | April to July '35 | Employed as an artist by the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration | | 1935 | August | Employed as an artist on the WPA Federal Art Project's Mural Division | | 1936 | --- | Met Jackson Pollack for the first time sometime this year. | | 1937 | July | Fired from the WPA | | --- | --- | Exhibits in a protest show called "Pink Slips Over Culture" sponsored by the Artists Union and the Citizens Committee for Support of the WPA | | 1937-40 | August | Re-hired on the WPA | | 1939-40 | --- | Studied with Hans Hofmann | | 1939 | August | Fired from the WPA under ruling which discharged all artists employed more than 18 months | | --- | November | Re-hired on the WPA | | --- | --- | Active in Artists Union about this time | | 1940 | June | First exhibited with American Abstract Artists | | --- | --- | From this year on exhibits in numerous group shows (See list which follows) |