1908-1984 American painter associated with Abstract Expressionism. Between 1926 and 1932 she studied at the Cooper Union in New York. During the 1930’s her work was realistic, but by 1940 she was exhibiting with American Abstract Artists.
By 1945 she had assimilated Surrealism techniques of improvisation and adapted them to her basically style of Cubism, which placed her in the center of the avant-garde. She helped launch, and was the only female painter associated with the New York School of painting with her then husband Jackson Pollock.
In 1955, critic Clement Greenberg referred to a show of Krasner's as one of the most important exhibitions of the decade
Long time friends with Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso.