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Polar Stampede, Lee Krasner, Paintings in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA 10, 2025-04-15 14:12:21, by Lee Krasner. From the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

United States · 1908–1984

Lee Krasner

Abstract Expressionist of restless, constantly reinvented gestural canvases.

  • Radical
  • Monumental
  • Abstract Geometrics

Fun fact

When a painting failed she tore it up and collaged the pieces into a new one.

How she made it

Gestural oil worked from the shoulder in sweeping arcs, plus a collage practice of cutting up rejected canvases and drawings and re-pasting the shards into new compositions.

Work
Polar Stampede, Lee Krasner, Paintings in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA 10, 2025-04-15 14:12:21
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