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LEE KRASNER -- Chronology

1908
October 27, Lenore Krassner (Lee Krasner) is born in Brooklyn, New York, second from youngest of Joseph and Anna Krasner's one son and six daughters, and their first child born in the United States. Father came to America from a small village near Odessa, Russia, set up a fruit, vegetable and fish market. He was followed to the United States by his wife and their children.

1922 
Graduates elementary school, P.S. 72, Brooklyn.

Chooses art as a career. Attends Girls High in Brooklyn for one term [[strikethrough]] (year?) [[/strikethrough]] waiting to enter Washington Irving High School in Manhattan, where she majors in art for three years.

1926-29
Attends the Women's Art School of Cooper Union. Studies elementary drawing, drawing from antique casts with Mr. Hinton and life drawing with Victor Perard who asks her to execute plates for a textbook -- her first commission.

1928
July, attends the Art Students League. Studies life drawing with George Bridgman.

1927/28
The Krassner family moves to Greenlawn near Huntington, Long Island. Lee stays in Brooklyn with her younger married sister, Ruth, in order to continue school.

1929-32
Attends National Academy of Design. Studies under Charles Curran, Sidney Dickenson, Leon Kroll and Ivan Olinsky. Submits self-portrait painted in woods of Greenlawn for review by committee for promotion from antique to life classes. She is promoted on probation.

1929
Goes to newly opened Museum of Modern Art with a group of friends from the National Academy of Design. This first encounter with Matisse, Picasso and others from the Paris School deeply affects them and they cause an uproar at the Academy.

1933
Works nights as a waitress at the Sam Johnson Restaurant, a night club on Third Street in Greenwich Village.

Considers becoming an art teacher. Takes courses at CCNY.

Also attends Greenwich House at night. Studies life drawing under Job Goodman.

1934
January-March, works as an artist on the Public Works of Art Project -- the first of the New Deal art projects.

1934-35
April 1934-July 1935, works as an artist for the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration.

August, becomes an assistant, along with Harold Rosenberg, to the muralist Max Spivak in the WPA Federal Arts Project Mural Division.