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THE INDOMITABLE LEE KRASNER
BY CINDY NEMSER

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Untitled, oil on canvas. 1946. Photo: Hans Narnuth.

CINDY NEMSER is the editor of the Feminist Art Journal and author of Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists (Charles Scribner's Sons.) She is art critic for Changes as well as a contributing editor to Arts Magazine.

Lee Krasner is indomitable. A woman of fierce passions and firm opinions, she is capable of bearing her soul on canvas but never deviating from her own meticulously worked out codes of behavior. Combative, imperious (Krasner has been labelled a tyrant by friends and enemies alike) she is also sensitive, generous, loyal and blessed or cursed, depending to whom you are talking (the critic Clement Greenberg openly admits he is afraid of her) with an intellect of formidable size. And all of Krasner's impressive attributes have been transcribed onto the many canvases that make up the body of her

SPRING 1975