Brooklyn-born artist Lenore “Lee” Krasner was among the most talented abstract painters of New York’s midcentury movement. She trained at the Women’s Art School of Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. Krasner’s energetic and colorful compositions were the product of a tireless impulse to push her creative abilities and explore abstract visual language. Krasner ultimately found recognition as an abstract expressionist, with a 1965 retrospective at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973, and a full retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in 1983.
In 1940, Man Ray fled France to escape the Nazi occupation and temporarily settled in Los Angeles. There he established a studio and made a living by his photography (in Paris, he had worked as a…
Nahal Oz, located in the Negev close to the border of the Gaza strip, was founded in 1951 as Israel’s first Nahal settlement. These were established by soldiers to provide a first line of defense…
Elaine Lustig Cohen designed this catalog cover for the Jewish Museum in New York’s exhibition, Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors at a time when she was developing a bold new…