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Lee Krasner

Imperative, 1976

Not on View

Medium

oil, charcoal and paper on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in.)

framed: 131.1 x 131.8 x 5 cm (51 5/8 x 51 7/8 x 1 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.59.1

Artists / Makers

Lee Krasner (artist) American, 1908 - 1984

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Inscription

lower center: Lee Krasner '76

Exhibition History

1977: Lee Krasner: Eleven Ways to Use the Words to See, The Pace Gallery, New York, 1977, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1983: Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk; Phoenix Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1983-1985, fig. 152.

1986: Lee Krasner Collages, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1986, unnumbered catalogue, repro. (unpublished checklist, no. 14).

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, unnumbered catalogue, color repro.

1999: Lee Krasner, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Akron Art Museum; Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999-2001, pl. 91.

2019: Lee Krasner: Living Colour, Barbican Art Gallery, London; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, 2019 - 2021, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1977: Cavaliere, Barbara. "Lee Krasner." Arts Magazine 51 (April 1977): 26.

1977: Kusp, Donald B. "Lee Krasner at Pace." Art in America 65 (November-December 1977): 136.

1977: Prown, Jules David, and Barbara Rose. American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present. New York, 1977: 248, repro. 249 (same text as Rose 1980).

1977: Rose, Barbara. "Lee Krasner and the Origins of Abstract Expressionism." Arts Magazine 51 (February 1977): repro. on cover.

1980: Rose, Barbara. American Painting: The Twentieth Century. New York, 1980: 130, repro. 131 (same text as Prown and Rose 1977).

1984: Vetrocq, Marcia E. "An Independent Tack: Lee Krasner." Art in America 72 (May 1984): repro. 145.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 454-455, color repro.

1996: Wagner, Anne Middleton. Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keeffe. Berkeley, 1996: color pl. 19.