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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) |