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LEE KRASNER -- A CHRONOLOGY

YEAR      MONTH             EVENT
                            Born in Brooklyn, New York.

1926-28                     Studied at Cooper Union (Woman's Art School) Mr. Hinton, Victor [[Perard?]]
1928     July               Studied at the Art Students League under George Bridgman

1929-32                     Studied a the National Academy of Design under Charles Curran and Ivan Olinsky  Sidney Dickerson -- Leon Kroll 

1933                        Studied at City College of New York Greenwich House (Goodman - 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 Emergencey Relief Administration
1935     August             Employed as an artist on the WPA Federal Art Project's Mural Division
1936                        Met Jackson Pollock 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
         August              Re-hired on the WPA
1937-40                      Studied with Hans Hofmann
[[strikethrough]]1938[[/strikethrough]] -40
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

1040     June                First exhibited with American Abstract Artists
                             From this year on exhibits in numerous group shows (See list which follows)