career often was compromised by her role as supportive wife
to Jackson Pollock, arguably the most significant postwar American painter, as well as by the male-dominated art world.
Lee Krasner was the sixth of seven children born
to Russian-Jewish immigrants on October 27, 1908, who emigrated from
Bessarabia. Growing up in immigrant, Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn,
New York, Krasner was born Lena Krassner, but changed her name several
times in the early portion of her life, eventually settling on Lee
Krasner by the late 1940s. Art historians have pondered if Krasner used
the abbreviated "Lee" as an attempt to disguise her gender.
By the young age of 13, Krasner had already set her sights on becoming a professional artist, which was an unusual career choice for an immigrant and a woman. She eagerly applied to and was pleased to be accepted by Washington Irving High School, the only New York City public high school at the time that allowed women to study art
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