Untitled

Lee Krasner has only in recent decades been recognized as an important artist. Her contribution to art history was shadowed by that of her more famous husband, Jackson Pollock, and the male artists of the New York Abstract Expressionist group. Krasner married Pollock in 1944 and was responsible for introducing her artist-husband to important people in the New York art world, including Clement Greenberg, the renowned critic. Krasner’s influence on Pollock was profound. She not only provided networking opportunities, but aesthetic direction. It was she who first began covering the canvas with a passionate flurry of marks and encouraged his trademark action paintings. This painting reflects the direction her work took in the late 1950s that surfaced at intervals throughout the remainder of her career—large gestural forms that resembled seeds or ova floating on fields of color. Krasner reworked this painting over a long period of time, but it was never truly finished.