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Lee Krasner Chronology

     October 27, Lenore Krasner is born in Brooklyn,
     New York, youngest of Joseph and Anna Krasner's 
     one son and [[crossed out]] four [[crossed out]]
     six daughters, and their only child born in the
     United States. Father came to America from a small
     village near Odessa, Russia, set up a food shop
     and was followed by his wife. and their children.

     Chooses art [[crossed out]] over secretarial work
     [[crossed out]] as a career. Attends Girls High in
     Brooklyn for one year waiting to enter Washington
     Irving high School in Manhattan where she majors
     in art.

1926-     Attends Women's Art School of Cooper Union. 
28-or     Studies under Victor Perard who has her do
1927-29   plates for a textbook -- her first payment
          art.
          
          The Krasner family moves to [[crossed out]] 
          Huntington, [[crossed out]] Greenlawn, Long 
          Island, Lee stays in Brooklyn with her sister
          Ruth in order to continue school.

1929-     Attends National Academy of Design. 
32        Charles Curian  Ivon Olinsky Sidney 
          Dickinson - Neilson   Studies under Leon 
          Kroll. Submits self-portrait painted in woods
          of [[crossed out]] Huntington, [[crossed 
          out]] Greenlawn, LongIsland, for review by 
          committee for promotion. She is promoted on
          probation.
1929      Goes to newly opened Museum of Modern Art 
          where she first encounters Matisse and others 
          from the Paris School. This contacts deeply 
          affects her ideas about art, (and she begins
          a new series of paintings.)? 
 
          Works nights as a waitress at the Sam
          Johnson restaurant, night club on Third
          Street in Greenwich Village.

1933      Considers becoming art teacher. Takes courses
1934      at CCNY. Attends life drawing, Greenwich 
1935      House. (Job Goodman) Government creates the
          WPA Federal Arts Project, which appeals to 
          her more than teaching and waitressing.

1936      First meets Jackson Pollock at Artists
1937      Union loft party. 52W. 9th St.   Where? 52 W.
          8th           
1938      Studies with Hans Hofman. Meets Clement
40        Greenburg through Harold and May Rosenberg.


1938-     Becomes an assistant to the muralist Max
42        Spivak in the WPA Federal Arts Project Mural 
          Division. Paints cityscapes and factory 
          scenes.

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Transcription Notes:
There is a double arrow pointing between 1926 and 29. There is an arrow pointing from the word 'Works' to 1933. There is an arrow pointing from 52 W. 9th to 1937. There is an arrow pointing from 1938 to the word 'Studies'