Honoring Lee Krasner on the artist’s birthday. Born on this day in 1908, Krasner is one of the critical figures of American art. Emerging from the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters, she committed to a six-decade persistent exploration of novel approaches to painting and collage. This early self-portrait depicts the artist around the time she completed her studies, prefiguring her pivotal shift to abstraction in 1940. Today, Krasner’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is included in the permanent collections of major institutions, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jewish Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Tate, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Australia, Sydney; among many others. Lee Krasner Self-Portrait, ca. 1931-1933 oil on linen 18 x 16 inches 45.7 x 40.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, the Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. © 2025 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York⁣. #leekrasner #wadsworthatheneum #selfportrait #pollockkrasnerfoundation