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blue. It's a strange thing but later in life it became very hard for me to paint a picture using blue. It just doesn't come easy....

That [[strikethrough]] activity [[/strikethrough]]map, and a teacher named [[crossed out]] Mr. [[/crossed out]] Wolwrath are [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] what Krasner remembers of [[strikethrough]] the early classes [[/strikethrough]] those days. [[strikethrough]] It [[/strikethrough]]He was [[strikethrough]] his eccentricity[[/strikethrough]] eccentric to [[strikethrough]] insist [[/strikethrough]] think girls should be allowed to play baseball with the boys. [[strikethrough]] After considerable pressure on the administration, he won and all the children played on the teams. [[/strikethrough]] "Togetherness like that was my kind of thing!"

Why Krasner decided about then to be an artist she has no idea, [[strikethrough]] It just felt normal to [[/strikethrough]] it was to that end that she applied totThe all-girls' Washington Irving High School in Manhattan [[strikethrough]] and after one turn down was accepted [[/strikethrough]] There, she majored in art and there again, it was a project that involved putting together bits elements from nature [[strikethrough]] into artistic form [[/strikethrough]] that caught her imagination. 

We drew big charts of beetles, flies, butterflies, moths, insects, fish and so on. We would get [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] model, of a fly or butterfly in [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] boxes  with [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] glass top. Then it would be up to us to pick the size of sheet or composition board and the range of hard pencils and to decide how many to put on the page.  And we would get anatomical assists from books. I loved doing those!

Much later, when I was in the WPA, the very first job I was given was to assist a geology professor doing a book on rocks. [[strikethrough]] specimins. [[/strikethrough]] There I was with a hard pencil and what came to me was the memory of all those butterflies and beetles, only now in  more abstract form. I was happy as a lark doing that stuff! 

All these [[strikethrough]] happyy [[/strikethrough]] happy early drawings were part of the collection destroyed when her parent's house burned down later on. "I was just developing my hand by drawing. It felt normal. It didn't feel like making 'art.'" [[strikethrough]]??? [[/strikethrough]] In 1926, at 18, she [[strikethrough]] graduated [[/strikethrough]] went on to the Woman's Art School of Cooper Union, where she studied traditional drawing from life and casts and so excelled that a teacher asked her to do [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] plates for a text on the subject. "At [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] both those schools there had only been

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blue. It’s a strange thing but later in life it became very hard for me to paint a picture using blue. It just doesn’t come easy….