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catalogue raisonné of, 417, 451

The Child Proceeds,
236

Circumcision,
236

Constellation,
246

counterfeits, 417

critical reviews of, 201, 221, 259, 261, 267–68, 276, 284, 291, 292, 379

Croaking Movement,
246

The Dancers,
246

dripping technique, 105–6, 243, 250

Earthworms,
246

in exhibitions, 7, 165, 166, 200, 208–9, 219, 220, 240, 246, 250, 257, 258–59, 261, 267, 272, 276, 283–84, 291–92, 370, 378–79, 417–18, 439

Eyes in the Heat,
246

Galaxy,
237

Grey Center,
246

Guardians of the Secret,
207, 233, 262

High Priestess,
236

international market for, 356–57, 360, 376, 443

The Key,
240, 246

Lavender Mist,
267

The Little King,
236–37

Magic Light,
246

The Magic Mirror,
168

Mural, 197,
246

Number 5,
256

Number 17,
317

Number Two,
264

Ocean Greyness,
294, 325

One,
267

Pasiphae,
212

Portrait and a Dream, 289,
398

prices of, 317–18, 336, 344, 346, 357, 359, 362, 372, 382, 417, 442, 443

The She-Wolf,
205, 212

Shimmering Substance,
246

Something of the Past,
246

Stenographic Figure,
200–201

The Teacup,
246

There Were Seven in Eight,
319

Troubled Queen,
236, 237

Two,
319

The Water Bull,
246

Water Figure,
236

The White Angel,
236

Yellow Triangle,
246

Pollock, LeRoy McCoy (father), 169

Pollock, Marvin Jay (brother), 173, 240, 267, 272

Pollock, Sanford (brother),
see
McCoy, Sande

Pollock, Stella (mother), 190–91, 192, 202–3, 211, 213, 248, 249, 257, 258, 303

Pollock
(film), 1

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 450

Poor, Henry Varnum, 116

Porter, Fairfield, 301

Potter, Jeffrey, 265, 266, 288, 292, 299, 449

Pousette-Dart, Richard, 10, 220, 423, 424

Preston, Stuart, 258–59, 261, 274, 291, 301, 324, 351

Pringle, Ann, 254

Provincetown, artist colony at, 134, 135, 147, 213–14, 227, 241

Purdy, H. Levitt, 165, 166

Putzel, Howard, 200–201, 207, 208, 211, 213, 216, 219, 220–21, 229, 253

Pyle, Howard, 228

 

Rago, Louise Elliott, 349

Rand, Harry, 418, 423–24, 428, 431

Rattner, Abraham, 224

Rauschenberg, Robert, 370

Ray, Man, 89, 113

Raynor, Vivien, 351–52, 360

Read, Herbert, 200–201

Rebay, Baroness Hilla, 6, 188, 202

Redon, Odilon, 101

Reed, Alma, 104

Reed, John, 85

Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco,
387,
388

Reeves, Ruth, 155

Refregier, Anton, 88, 155, 181, 187

Reinhardt, Ad, 144, 238–39, 368, 381

René, Jean, 136

Resnick, Milton, 104, 348, 381

Reynal, Jeanne, 392, 395

Rhodes, Sissy (Adelaide), 26

Richard, Paul, 403

Riley, Bridget, 370

Rimbaud, Arthur, 138–39, 162, 172, 174, 218, 350, 353, 379

Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, 438

Robertson, Bryan, 5, 8–9, 341, 344, 354–55, 370–71, 380, 411

Robinson, William S., 66

Rockefeller, Abby Aldrich, 66

Rodgers, Gaby, 2, 407

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 86, 133, 152, 188

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 82, 86, 121, 189

Rosati, James, 328

Rose, Barbara, 7, 10, 185, 336, 365, 389, 391, 396, 397–98, 399, 407, 409–10, 415–16, 418–19, 423–24, 430, 431, 435, 436, 441, 442, 444, 445, 448, 449

Rosenberg, Alex, 404

Rosenberg, Dave, 77

Rosenberg, Harold, 76–77, 84, 87, 90–91, 92, 97, 98–99, 114, 116, 128, 139, 231, 361, 379, 381–82, 385, 394, 398, 405

and action painting, 278–79, 287–88, 354–55

journal of, 280–82

Rosenberg, May Tabak, 70, 77, 90–91, 93, 98, 99, 231, 232, 281, 361, 394, 405

Rosenquist, James, 407

Rothenstein, Sir John, 356

Rothko, Mark, 205, 220, 258, 322, 350, 363, 370, 406, 419

Rouault, Georges, 165, 178

Rubenfeld, Florence, 333–35

Rubin, William, 379, 423–24, 428, 429

Russell, John, 374, 432

Russell, Morgan, 83

Russia, refugees from, 14–16, 21, 61, 62, 100

Russo, Alex, 365

Ryan, Anne, 273–74, 392

 

Sage, Kay, 224

Samaras, Lucas, 407

Sam Johnson's nightclub, 75–77, 84, 90

Samuels, Spencer, 332

Sander, Ludwig, 368

Sanders, Joop, 59, 80, 142

Sandler, Irving H., 5, 352, 359–60, 410, 446

Sawin, Martica, 301

Schaefer, Bertha, 253, 254, 255

Schanker, Louis, 148

Schapiro, Meyer, 114, 218, 370

Schapiro, Miriam, 390, 391, 395, 400, 406, 414

Schardt, Bernard, 177

Schary, Saul, 199–200

Schellinger, William, 257

Schilling, Marge, 405–6

Schnakenberg, H. E., 116

Schneemann, Carolee, 406

Schöngauer, Martin, 223–24

School of Paris, 7, 115, 145–46, 185–86, 413

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 36, 68

Schwartz, Delmore, 138, 139, 353

Schwartz, Nancy, 376

Schwitters, Kurt, 274, 414

Scott, Hazel, 180, 181

Sekula, Sonja, 250

Seliger, Charles, 220

Seliger, Robert V., 247

Semmel, Joan, 406

Shaw, Charles, 239

Shpikov, Russia, 13, 14, 15, 18, 52

Siden, Frank, 369

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, 259, 279, 283, 284, 287, 353, 417, Siegel, Leonard Israel, 295–97, 299, 350, 403

Signa Gallery, East Hampton, 321, 326–27, 336, 348

Silva, Vieira de, 392

Siqueiros, David Alfaro, 103, 104–6, 109, 186

Slatkin, Wendy, 421

Slivka, David, 226–27, 247, 327

Sloan, John, 72, 164

Slobodkina, Esphyr (Esther), 54, 56, 62–63, 69, 97, 184, 239, 290

Lee Krasner Astride a Fighting Cock,
93, 195

Smith, David, 284–85, 328

Smith, Gregory White, 441

Smith, Griffin, 402

Smith, Tony, 238, 269

Snyder, C. B. J., 37

Sobel, Janet, 243

Soby, James, 201, 226

Socialist Party, 105, 111, 112

Society of Independent Artists, 84–85

Soglow, Otto, 236, 237

Solman, Joe, 114

Solomon, Deborah, 441, 448

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 294, 437, 447

Sontag, Susan, 451

Southgate, Patsy, 1, 292, 293, 298, 299, 307, 313, 326, 334, 434, 449

Soyer, Isaac, 121

Soyer, Raphael, 106, 124, 258

Spanish Civil War, 111–12, 118, 149

Speyer, Darthea, 311

Spivak, Max, 73, 86, 88, 96, 97–98, 100, 113, 114

Stable Gallery, New York, 290, 300–302, 414

Stamos, Theodoros, 321, 368

Stavenitz, Alix, 90

Steffens, Lincoln, 108

Steig, William, 166

Stein, Bernice,
31,
50, 64,
79,
80

Stein, Frances Patiky, 296, 360, 386

Stein, Morris, 63

Stein, Muriel Pearl,
31,
50, 64,
79,
80

Stein, Ronald, 1, 64,
79,
80, 96, 231, 300, 329–30, 360, 361, 384, 406, 435, 439, 440, 449–50

Stein, Rose Krasner,
31,
50

Stein, Ruth Krasner, 1, 50, 63–64, 448

Stein, William, 50, 63–64

Steinberg, Saul, 225

Stella, Joseph, 121

Sterne, Hedda, 225, 260, 263, 368, 385, 391, 406

Stevens, Mark, 282, 447

Stewart, Christopher,
367,
368

Stieglitz, Alfred, 125

Stiglitze, Baron Aleksander, 61

Still, Clyfford, 269, 276, 287, 340, 368, 394

Stone, Edward Durell, 254

Stony Brook Foundation, 427–28

Stutz, Geraldine, 375, 403

Sullivan, Mrs. Cornelius J., 66

Sullivan, Harry Stack, 295, 296–97

Sullivan, Mary J. Quinn, 246

Sullivanians, 295–99, 332

Suzuki, Daisetz T., 278

Swan, Annalyn, 282

Sweeney, James Johnson, 189, 201, 202, 208–9, 211, 212, 216, 226, 251

Sweeney, Laura, 218

Sykes, Gerald, 261

 

Tacha, Athena, 421

Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 393

Tallmer, Jerry, 410, 432–33

Tamayo, Rufino, 220

Tango, Jenny, 414

Tanguy, Yves, 225

Tanning, Dorothea, 224, 229, 259, 392

Tapié, Michel, 326, 336–37

Tàpies, Antoni, 322

Tate Gallery, London, 4, 438

Tatlin, Vladimir, 100

Taylor, Francis Henry, 262

Taylor, Joshua, 418, 428

Taylor, Robert, 403

Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, 88, 96

Tenke, Lois, 358

Tenshin, Okakura, 278

Thaw, Clare, 449

Thaw, Eugene V., 2, 280, 400, 417, 431, 441, 449, 451

Theodor, Pan, 56

Thompson, Clara M., 296

Time,
265, 266

Tingley, Iowa, 169

Tobey, Mark, 205, 243, 267, 374

Tomlin, Bradley Walker, 244–45, 261, 419

Traphagen, Ethel, 44

Trotsky, Leon, 108–10

Trotskyism, 110, 111, 144

Trubach, Serge, 118–20, 194

Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, 59

Tschacbasov, Nahum, 121

Tuchman, Maurice, 367

Tucker, Marcia, 245, 398, 399–400

Tufts, Eleanor, 421

Twombley, Cy, 382

Tworkov, Jack, 368

Tyler, Parker, 77, 325

Tzionglinsky, Ian F., 61

 

Uccello, Paolo, 310

University of Alabama, 377–78

University of North Dakota, 395–96

Updike, John,
Seek My Face,
1

Uris Brothers, 329–30, 371, 403

 

Vail, Laurence, 225

Valadon, Suzanne, 393

Valentine Gallery, New York, 115, 135, 165, 179

Valliere, James T., 363

Vanderbilt, Mrs. Frederick W., 42

Venice Biennale, 261, 265

Ventura, Anita, 325

Vetrocq, Marcia, 445–46

Vicente, Esteban, 368, 385, 397, 449

Vicente, Harriet, 449

Viggo, Princess, née Eleanor Green, 42

Vogel, Joseph, 70–71, 73, 112

Vonnoh, Robert, 65

Von Wicht, John, 148

 

Wallach, Amei, 399, 415

Walrath, Philip L., 29, 365

Ward, Eleanor, 300, 301–2, 305

Ward, Joan, 327

Warhol, Andy, 447

Warner, Langdon, 278, 279

Washington Irving High School, New York, 29, 33–34, 36–40

Wasserman, Emily, 383

Watson, Forbes, 72

Weber, Max, 72, 391

Weegee (Arthur Fellig), 145

Weinstock, Clarence, 114

Weir, J. Alden, 65

Weisberg, Ruth, 421

Weiss, William, 14, 21

Whipple, Enez, 258, 449

Whitechapel Gallery, London, 5, 370–75, 377, 383, 389, 411

Whitney Museum of American Art, 116, 154, 434

“Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years,” 7, 416–17, 419, 421–22, 423, 433

founding of, 72–73

“Lee Krasner: Large Paintings,” 398–400, 416

Wiegand, Charmion von, 104, 182

Wildenstein, Daniel, 420

Williams, Margaret, 26

Williams, Sheldon, 374

Williams, Tennessee, 174

Wilson, Jane, 319–20

Wilson, William, 445

Winterbotham, Joseph, 68

Wise, Howard, 343, 347–48, 351, 359, 362, 365, 420

Wittenborn, Betsy, 358

women:

feminists, 5, 45–46, 383, 384, 390–93, 395, 397, 400–401, 406, 407–8, 410–11, 414, 421–22, 425, 444–45

flappers, 45, 62

and husbands' identity, 261, 263–64, 378

ignored in art history, 3, 5, 199, 244, 276, 367–68, 389–95, 409–11, 416

Jewish, roles of, 18, 32, 36, 68, 364, 422

suffrage movement, 26–27, 410

as “the wives,” 199, 217, 260, 378, 382, 400

and WPA, 95, 99, 390

World's Fair (1939–40), 149, 152, 175

World War II, 145, 149, 160, 183, 205, 222

WPA (Works Progress Administration), 3, 38, 73, 86–87, 105, 120–21, 390

artist payments by, 114, 118, 159

hiring and firing by, 117–20, 132, 159, 198

Krasner's work with, 93–97, 106–8, 118, 130–33, 136, 147–49, 159, 175, 189–90, 250

Mural Project, 129–30, 132–33, 147–49, 175

Public Works of Art Project, 87–88, 99

War Services Project, 189–90, 194

Wyeth, Andrew, 398

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