Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984), a Brooklyn-born pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, is known for her portraits, Cubist drawings, collage, assemblage, and large-scale abstract paintings. Krasner began her formal study of art in 1928, attending the Art Students League in New York, the Women’s Art School at Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design. Then she studied with Hans Hofmann in 1937. Krasner was a known arts activist, joining the American Abstract Artists group in 1940. Five years later, she married Jackson Pollock. The two had a tremendous mutual influence on one another’s art. After her husband’s death in 1956, the scale, energy, and emotion of Krasner’s paintings expanded. Krasner often changed her aesthetic and even destroyed earlier artworks that did not meet her high standards; therefore, relatively few exist. Her works are held in collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.