Lee Krasner Steps Out From Pollock’s Shadow

In 1957, Lee Krasner moved her painting tools and set up her studio in the barn on the property of her home in Springs, New York, a hamlet in eastern Long Island. The barn—a single-light-filled space measuring roughly 20 by 20 feet—had previously been the studio of her late husband, Jackson Pollock . But from 1957 until Krasner’s death in 1984, the barn was her domain, and there she took full advantage of the space and freedom finally afforded her, producing the most brilliant works of her career.