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Lee Krasner

1908 - 1984

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Lenore "Lee" Krasner (born Lena Krassner; October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and visual artist active primarily in New York. She received her early academic training at the Women's Art School of Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design from 1928 to 1932. Krasner's exposure to Post-Impressionism at the newly opened Museum of Modern Art in 1929 led to a sustained interest in modern art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lee Krasner has received more than 1,380,691 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Lee Krasner is the 790th most popular painter (down from 608th in 2019), the 2,714th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,031st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Lee Krasner ranks 790 out of 1,421Before her are Shen Zhou, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Winslow Homer, Richard Parkes Bonington, Peter Snayers, and Cindy Sherman. After her are Vasily Polenov, Nicolas Lancret, Toriyama Sekien, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Marie Krøyer, and Walter Sickert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Lee Krasner ranks 103Before her are Jacques Massu, Sicco Mansholt, Lev Pontryagin, Lionel Hampton, Michael DeBakey, and Salo Flohr. After her are Fyodor Okhlopkov, Sarit Thanarat, João Guimarães Rosa, Arturo Frondizi, Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, and Aden Adde. Among people deceased in 1984, Lee Krasner ranks 82Before her are Vladimir Chelomey, Josyf Slipyj, Peter Lawford, Lionel Robbins, Souvanna Phouma, and El Santo. After her are Jüri Lossmann, Cigerxwîn, Richard Basehart, Sergei Salnikov, Motoo Tatsuhara, and Baba Sali.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lee Krasner ranks 2,714 out of 18,182Before her are Allen Newell (1927), Liev Schreiber (1967), George Pullman (1831), Katharine Graham (1917), Jimmie Angel (1899), and Cindy Sherman (1954). After her are Darryl F. Zanuck (1902), Bonnie Bedelia (1948), Bruce Campbell (1958), Djuna Barnes (1892), David Packard (1912), and Zoë Wanamaker (1949).

Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Lee Krasner ranks 32Before her are Will Sampson (1933), Julian Schnabel (1951), Dorothea Tanning (1910), Thomas Eakins (1844), Winslow Homer (1836), and Cindy Sherman (1954). After her are Carl Andre (1935), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Chuck Close (1940), Henry Hill (1943), Barbara Kruger (1945), and Lawrence Weiner (1942).