Lee Krasner

'Beautifully evokes a period in American art that laid the groundwork for the women artists of today' - Erica Jong 'An insightful, sharply drawn portrait of 20th-century America from a vantage point of a creative woman swept up in a realm of remarkable artistic productivity' - Wall Street Journal 'Compelling ... Gail Levin has drawn on her close association with Lee Krasner and extensive research to produce a biography that rings fair and true' - Los Angeles Times '[Draws] on her close personal relationship with the painter and a multitude of interviews … impressively researched' - Spectator '[Levin’s] book, dense with documentation and quotations from letters and interviews, is the culmination of decades of scholarship, advocacy and even friendship with Krasner … empathetic and insightful … Krasner comes wonderfully alive, especially in her own words, in Levin’s pages' - Literary Review 'Rigorous research, deep knowledge of art and cultural history, penetrating analysis and a flair for storytelling bring to life a fully formed Lee Krasner. Those who never knew her will wish they had, and those who did will be amazed' - Helen A. Harrison, Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center 'Art historian Gail Levin's Lee Krasner is a quintuple whammy of a biography--the story of a major artist; a description of a notorious marriage; an education in 20th-century art; a gossipy immersion into Bohemian New York; and a settling of scores against those who practiced gender bias' - O, The Oprah Magazine 'Lee Krasner has for a long time been poorly served. She deserves better and she has it here' - Artbookreview 'Unfairly maligned as simply “Mrs Jackson Pollock”, this weighty first biography reveals a pioneering painter who campaigned for women’s rights and created abstract art that pulsed with life' - Artists & Illustrators 'Packed with important insight into the post-war American art scene, this is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary woman' - The Lady 'An engrossing, uplifting story of personal and creative survival, against a bright backcloth of mid-century America' - Jackie Wullshläger’s Art Books of the Year, Financial Times