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By Barbara Cavaliere

First and foremost, Lee Krasner is a painter, a painter to be reckoned with: the only woman member of the first generation of Abstract Expressionism, the most important movement in modernist American painting. Intelligent, direct, outspoken, animated - Lee Krasner is a volatile personality, a walking art history book offering a unique combination of experience, understanding and information on a period of unparalleled excitement and complexity in New York painting. She is one of the few remaining participants of a movement which is both historically entrenched and alive, one which is currently going through an intense reevaluation.

Krasner's dual role as painter and as wife/widow of Jackson Pollock, one of the most glittering stars of the period, has been anything but easy, and perhaps the most amazing aspect of her life in art is her unswerving persistence, her strength of conviction and toughness so firmly based in her knowledge of and belief in painting. She talks openly about her position among her peers, relating the problems she faced with the critics, her fellow artists and the "other wives." 

"Put with the Wives"

After many years on the WPA and with figures such as Hofmann, Gorky, de Kooning, John Graham, Baziotes and

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