Lee Krasner (74 page)

Untitled (Surrealist Composition)
, 100

Untitled, 1940–43, 143

Upstream,
323

Vigil,
350

Visitation,
325

Water
series, 428–29

What Beast Must I Adore?,
353

White Rage,
359

Yes & No,
336

Krasner, Riva (sister), 18

Krasner, Rose (sister), 18, 23,
31,
50

Krasner, Ruth [Stein] (sister), 1,
13,
22–23, 25, 50, 63–64, 448

Kroll, Leon, 71, 89–90, 112, 303

Kuhn, Walt, 165

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo, 120, 391

 

La Farge, John, 65

Lamba, Jacqueline, 225

Landau, Ellen, 10, 418, 423–24, 428, 429–32

Lang, Jack, 439

Langer, Cassandra, 408

Langhorne, Elizabeth, 9, 423

Larkin, Roseanne, 258

Lassaw, Ernestine, 439, 449

Lassaw, Ibram, 49, 73, 88, 144, 327, 385, 397, 434, 449

Laszlo, Violet Staub de, 169, 208

Lee, John Post, 433–35, 436–37

Leen, Nina, 263

Léger, Fernand, 113, 146, 150, 151–53, 156, 167, 184, 229

Lehman, Harold, 104, 105

Lehmann, Margaret, 26

Leigh, William R., 44

Lescaze, William, 152

Levin, Gail,
389,
419, 421, 430, 432

LeWitt, Sol, 412

Lieberman, William Slattery, 380–81, 417, 451

Life,
262, 263, 280, 319–20

Lilith (biblical figure), 383, 384

Lindeberg, Linda, 261, 271, 321

Lindner, Richard, 379

Lippard, Lucy R., 421

Little, John, 8, 129, 140, 175, 179–82, 236, 258, 261, 266, 321, 366, 385, 394, 434, 441, 449

Little, Josephine, 8, 266, 369, 434, 449

Lloyd, Frank, 346–47, 360, 361–62

Loeb, Harold, 198

Loew, Michael, 73, 88, 95–96, 136

Loew-Lewin productions, 224

Long Island, artist colony on, 228–29, 234–35, 236, 251–52, 258, 261, 264, 275–76, 291, 293, 327–28, 362, 377, 385, 394, 396–97, 439–40

Lord, Sheridan, 299, 303–4, 321

Los Angeles County Museum, 4, 367–68, 408

Louchheim, Aline B., 254

Louis, Morris, 283, 350

Low, Will Hicok, 43

Lynd, Robert S., 80

Lynton, Norbert, 374

 

Macdonald, Dwight and Gloria, 386

Macdonald-Wright, Stanton, 83

Machiz, Herbert, 365

MacIver, Loren, 224, 392

Macpherson, Kenneth, 216, 229

Macy, Happy and Valentine, 255

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 27–28, 33

Mahaut, Henri, 136

Mantegna, Andrea, 310

Marburger, John H., 448, 450

Marcantonio, Vito, 119–20

Marca-Relli, Conrad, 366, 368

Margolis, David, 134

Marin, John, 268

Marisol, 391

Mark, Grant, 276–77, 278

Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, 346–47, 355, 357, 359

Marlborough Gallery, New York City, 4, 5, 359, 360, 384, 387, 395, 396, 398, 406, 407, 417, 425, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York City, 362, 377, 382, Marsh, Reginald, 116

Martin, Agnes, 406

Mason, Alice Trumbull, 99, 239, 391

Masson, André, 220, 404

Matisse, Henri, 71–72, 129, 135, 146, 165, 178, 319

influence of, 6, 101–2, 167, 188, 196, 218, 326, 349, 382, 385, 396, 413, 415, 419, 444

Matisse, Pierre, 115, 437

Matta, 199–200, 212, 218, 226, 230

Matter, Herbert, 152, 155–57, 158, 160, 173, 189, 203, 205, 210, 211, 214, 233, 252, 281, 288

Matter, Mercedes Carles,
see
Carles, Jeanne Mercedes Cordoba

Matthiessen, Peter, 292, 294, 299, 312

May Day parades, 103, 104–5, 113

Maynard, George W., 65

McAndrew, William, 37

McBride, Henry, 101–2, 153

McClure, Stella May, 169

McCoy, Arloie, 173, 192, 193, 213, 303,
367

McCoy, Jason,
367,
435, 438, 449, 450

McCoy, Sande, 105, 167, 171, 191, 192, 193, 202, 213, 272, 277, 303

McKinney, Donald, 5, 377, 380, 398, 401, 417

McMahon, Audrey, 99, 107, 119, 194

McNeil, Dora, 512

McNeil, George, 123, 129–30, 144, 172, 239, 280

Melville, Herman, 369

Mercer, George, 128, 129, 135–38, 147, 152–53, 155, 157–63, 174, 175, 177–78, 183–85, 192–93, 195, 207, 212, 215, 219, 222–23, 227–28, 241, 247

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4, 58, 155, 262–63, 264, 267, 317, 380, 434

Metzger, Edith, 311, 312

Michael, Majorie, 405

Michelangelo, 83–84

Miller, Betsy, 438

Miller, Henry, 161

Miller, Lee Anne, 420–21

Miller, Robert, 358, 438, 442

Miró, Joan, 112, 135, 148, 167, 177, 188, 218, 219, 220, 221, 262

Mirsky, Eda, 56–58, 62, 68–69

Mirsky, Kitty, 56–58, 62

Mirsky, Samuel, 56–57

Mitchell, Joan, 319, 409

Modigliani, Amedeo, 165, 178

Mollison, James, 443

Mondale, Joan, 409

Mondrian, Piet, 104, 117, 126–27, 149–53, 179–83, 186, 198, 201

influence of, 130, 148, 167, 172, 178, 181, 184, 188, 203, 221, 273, 274, 275, 326, 419

Monroe, Gerald, 107

Morgan, Mrs. J. P., 42

Morris, Diana, 416

Morris, George L. K., 144–45, 150–51, 152

Morris, Robert, 379

Moss, Howard, 440

Motherwell, Maria Emilia Ferreira y Moyers, 236

Motherwell, Robert, 199, 200, 203, 216–18, 230, 236, 245, 258, 261, 316, 363, 407, 419, 424, 435, 436, 445

Mr. Kenneth (Batelle), 384

Mumford, Lewis, 112, 120, 121, 228

Munro, Eleanor, 138, 174, 300, 420

Münter, Gavriele, 124

Murphy, Thomas D., 35

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 442–46

Museum of Living Art, 151

Museum of Modern Art, 4, 58, 71, 73, 125, 130, 156–57, 164, 182, 274, 275

“Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism,” 100–101, 139

inaugural exhibition, 66–68

and Krasner's work, 370, 402, 418–19, 423–24, 430, 443, 448

Matisse retrospective, 319

Picasso retrospective, 135

picketing against, 144–45, 393, 409

and Pollock's work, 209, 267, 306, 316, 317, 326, 346, 377, 378–79, 380, 434

and women artists, 393–94

Museum of Non-Objective Painting, New York, 6, 158, 188, 197, 198, 202, 294; later Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Myers, John Bernard, 2, 11, 244, 365, 380, 407

 

Naifeh, Steven W., 441

Namuth, Carmen, 266

Namuth, Hans, 261–62, 266, 403

National Academy of Design, 6, 48, 50, 51, 53–56, 68–71, 390

National Gallery, 4, 267, 438

National Student League, 74–75

Navaretta, Cynthia, 279

Neel, Alice, 77

Neilson, Raymond Perry Rodgers, 54–55, 70

Nemser, Cindy, 244, 273, 333, 385, 392, 393, 401

Netter, Terence, 365–66, 369, 380, 434, 442, 443, 448, 449, 450, 451

Nevelson, Louise, 322, 391, 406, 407, 437

Newman, Annalee, 311, 312, 321

Newman, Barnett, 75, 238, 246, 262–63, 264, 311–12, 321, 342, 350, 363–65, 367–68, 394, 419, 438, 447

Newton, Francis, 228–29

Newton, Saul, 295, 297, 312, 313, 332

New Yorker, The,
263–64, 379

New York School, 3, 226, 367–68, 410–11, 417

Nicholas II (Tsar), 15, 59

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 36, 68

Nivola, Costantino, 265, 321, 385, 397

Nochlin, Linda, 408, 421

Noguchi, Isamu, 229

Noland, Kenneth, 350

 

O'Connor, Francis V., 377, 417

O'Hara, Frank, 370

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 392, 447

Oldenburg, Claes, 430

Olds, Elizabeth, 121

Olinsky, Ivan Gregorewitch, 65–66, 69, 70

Orozco, José Clemente, 186

Osaka Art Festival, 326

Ossorio, Alfonso, 256–57, 260, 266, 267, 270, 272, 273, 275–76, 278, 291, 302, 306, 307, 321, 328, 332, 337–38, 339, 340, 342, 345, 366, 368, 377, 380, 385, 403, 449

Ozenfant, Amédée, 151

 

Pace Gallery, New York, 406–7, 411–15, 420, 432–33, 437

Pantuhoff, Igor,
51,
56, 58–64, 376

birth and early years of, 59–61, 169

death of, 450

in Florida, 137–38, 140–41, 159

honors and awards to, 61–62, 70

and money matters, 136–38, 151, 159, 450

mother of, Nina Michailovna Dobrovolskaya, 59, 60, 159

personal traits of, 95–96, 128, 136, 138–39, 173, 190, 192, 340

as portrait painter, 128, 131, 141–42, 196

relationship with Krasner, 9, 62–64, 73, 74, 79–81, 90, 92, 96, 99, 102, 134, 135–36, 139–41, 195–96, 199, 216, 253, 356

Ventilator #2,
100

Ventilator No. 1,
113–14

and WPA, 93, 96–97, 128

Pantuhoff, Oleg Ivanovich, 59–61, 174

Pantuhoff, Oleg Ivanovich, Jr., 59, 60

Park, Charlotte, 247, 306, 316, 321

Parker, Elizabeth, 321

Parker, Raymond, 357

Parsons, Anne Bowen, 102

Parsons, Betty, 246–47, 249, 250, 251, 256, 257, 258, 259, 262, 263, 267, 272–73, 275, 276, 279, 283, 301, 309, 340, 342, 406, 425

Pascin, Jules, 391

Patiky, Mark, 386–87, 400

Pavia, Philip, 260, 287

Pearce, Jane, 295, 297, 313, 332

Pellicone, William, 435

Pène du Bois, Guy, 73, 116

Penn, Irving, 155

Perard, Victor Semon, 48–49

Pereira, I. Rice, 116, 274–75, 392

Petersen, Vita and Gustave “Peter,” 252–53

Phillips, Helen, 226–27, 316

Picasso, Pablo, 70, 103, 127, 129, 146, 165, 220, 259, 318, 355, 414

Femme au Fauteuil,
178

Femme aux Deux Profils,
178

Guernica,
112, 115, 135, 168, 203

influence of, 148, 167, 168, 172, 178, 188, 196, 218, 326, 413, 419, 444

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,
102, 168

Portrait of Dora Maar,
178

Roses,
178

and Spanish Civil War, 111, 112

Standing Figure,
125

P.M.,
145, 153, 238, 381

Poe, Edgar Allan, 31–33, 139, 218

Pollock, Charles (brother), 170, 171, 192, 193, 272

Pollock, Frank (brother), 267, 272

Pollock, Jackson, 82,
177, 197, 231, 289

and alcohol, 102, 169, 171, 172, 173, 190–92, 206, 211, 212, 214, 216, 217, 226, 227, 237, 247, 253, 257, 258, 260, 266, 270–71, 276–78, 285, 286, 289, 291, 294, 297–300, 313, 320, 362, 403, 404, 436

in analysis, 171–72, 207–8, 218, 270, 276, 295–300, 304, 307–8, 313

art connections of, 166–67, 199, 200, 239, 256–57, 261–62

at Art Students League, 83

and automobiles, 247, 277, 289, 292, 311–13

biographies of, 397–98, 441, 448

birth and background of, 169–70, 171, 263–64

broken bones of, 293, 303–4

and children, 279, 289–90, 298, 308

death of, 311–13, 318, 420

estate of, 272, 316, 317, 333, 336, 341–47, 353, 357–58, 360, 373, 381, 407, 420, 428, 434, 436, 438, 440

and Guggenheim, 199–202, 207, 208–13, 216, 218–20, 225–26, 233–34, 239–40, 246–47, 264, 265, 357–58, 376

influence on Krasner's work, 219–21, 223, 237, 243, 261, 272–73, 325–26, 335, 352, 382, 408, 419, 435, 436

Krasner's career after death of, 315–19, 320–28, 331–32, 352, 372, 380, 383, 414, 420

Krasner's career as second to, 3, 190, 194, 205, 206, 217, 236–38, 244, 263–65, 283–84, 308, 379–80, 398, 401, 419, 444, 451

Krasner's introductions to art world, 3, 173, 175, 204, 207, 208, 241, 326

Krasner's relationship with, 102–3, 167–69, 178, 185–96, 203, 206–21, 251, 279–80, 295, 299–300, 302–3, 308, 315, 319, 320, 384, 404

on Long Island, 226–28, 231–37, 248, 249–50, 260–61, 264, 272, 362

marriage to Krasner, 232, 233

and money matters, 189, 212, 225, 233–34, 249–50, 251, 372–73

neediness of, 9, 169, 171–73, 193, 199, 208, 216, 244, 269, 277, 290, 308, 316

and other women, 279–80, 300, 306–8, 319, 379, 397, 402

and Parsons, 246–47, 249, 250, 257, 258, 259, 267, 272–73, 276, 279, 283

personal traits of, 173, 251, 252, 260

and success, 205, 210, 238, 262, 264, 269–70, 275, 280, 283, 286, 287, 306, 359

talent of, 96, 168, 171, 196, 208, 214, 288, 373, 404, 436

unable to paint, 291–92, 300, 303, 306

will written by, 271–72

Pollock, Jackson, work of:

artistic influences on, 4, 104, 363, 384, 400

Autumn Rhythm,
267, 317

Bird Effort,
246

Birth,
178

Blue Poles,
347, 443

The Blue Unconscious,
246