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Lee Krasner
1908–1984 · Abstract Expressionism's most rigorous editor
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Krasner cut up her own failed canvases and rebuilt them, changing style whenever a manner hardened. Her Umber paintings, made in insomnia, are among the toughest of the movement.
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