Oral history interview with Lee Krasner
name: label: Creator
content: Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
label: Names
content: Club (New York, N.Y.)
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content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
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content: Graham, John, 1887-1961
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content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
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content: Newman, Barnett, 1905-1970
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content: Parsons, Betty, 1900-1982
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content: Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
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content: Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- East Hampton
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content: Jewish artists
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content: Abstract expressionism
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content: Art, American
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Creator
content: Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lee Krasner (1908-1984) was a painter in Easthampton, New York and married to Jackson Pollock.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.krasne72
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: Item is a transcript.
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content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Lee Krasner conducted in 1972, by Doloris Holmes, for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: This interview was conducted with the intention of documenting the Protest Art movement of the 1970's. In this interview, Krasner speaks of her dismay with the lack of recognition that many professional female artists receive; her resistence to joining the Club and the Irascible Eighteen; her experiences with getting exposure as a female artist; her relationship and respect for John Graham; the interest of Betty Parsons in Krasner's work; the mixed compliments received from Hofmann; her relationship with Newman; Her objection to de Kooning's "Woman" series; the Freudian aspect of Abstract Expressionism; the authoritarian/autocratic image of Rothko and Newman; the sexually biased role of the female within the Jewish Faith; the impossibility of separating content and aesthetic value; her female influence upon Pollock; her role in exposing Pollock to Matisse; her ability to network for Pollock (Herbert and Mercedes Matter, Sandy Calder, James Johnson, Sweeney, Hofmann); her ambiguity as to whether she has had the tradition female artist experience due to her association with Pollock.