by Gail Levin
Bunce, Lou, 166–67, 181
Bunshaft, Gordon, 362
Buñuel, Luis, Un Chien Andalou, 101
Burchfield, Charles, 72
Burliuk, David, 165, 166
Burroughs, Diana, 449
Café Society Uptown, 180–82
Calder, Alexander, 146, 156, 208, 210, 211, 216
Campbell, Lawrence, 168, 383–84
Cardonsky, Darby, 441, 446
Carles, Arthur B., 120, 213, 228, 239
Carles, Jeanne Mercedes Cordoba (Matter), 120, 129, 132, 135, 147, 152, 155–56, 158, 160, 168, 172–73, 189, 203, 204, 205, 206, 209, 212–14, 215, 218, 233, 252, 279–82, 288
Caro, Anthony, 370
Carone, Nicolas, 303, 308
Carrington, Leonora, 224, 253
Cassatt, Mary, 349
Cassou, Jean, 136
Castelli, Leo, 272, 337
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 45
Cavaliere, Barbara, 416, 420, 432
Cavallon, Giorgio, 54, 56, 62, 321, 368, 394
Cézanne, Paul, 48, 67–68, 70, 71, 102, 103
Chareau, Pierre, 229
Chase, William Merritt, 67
Cheim, John, 438, 442
Chicago, Judy, 390–91, 395, 414, 444
Chirico, Giorgio de, 98, 100, 101, 114, 165, 178
Christofanetti, Lucia, 229
Chryssa, 393
Chwatsky, Ann, 439–40
Cincinnati Art Museum, 2098
City College of New York, 74–75, 76, 82
Clark, Sir Kenneth, 356, 371–72
Coates, Robert M., 201, 268
Colbert, Claudette, 39
Cole, John, 315
Coleman, Ornette, 341
Collins, Judy, 298, 313
Collins, Pat, 165, 166
Cologne Museum, 438
Communist Party, 73–74, 85, 95, 98, 105, 106–8, 110–11, 113, 187, 321
Connolly, Jean, 201
Cooper, Douglas, 310
Cooper, Peter, 41
Cooper Union, 41–50, 390, 401
The Pioneer (student newspaper), 44–45, 48
Corbusier, Le, 265
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 403
Covey, Arthur, 54
Craven, Thomas, 73, 154
Crosman, Christophe, 109
Cunningham, Bill, 356
Curran, Charles Courtney, 58, 65, 69, 70
Dalí, Salvador, 101, 224, 447
Daumier, Honoré, 106
Daunis, Laurel, 402
Davie, Alan, 304
Davis, Stuart, 103, 116, 120, 148, 165, 166, 203, 239
de Kooning, Elaine Fried, 251, 259, 267, 272, 281–82, 291, 293, 320, 328, 368, 394, 406
de Kooning, Willem, 3, 59, 80, 82, 88–89, 95, 103–4, 111, 115, 128, 130, 131, 132, 136, 143, 148, 164, 165, 173, 178, 203, 204, 239, 251, 259, 260, 267, 280–82, 287, 291, 293, 307, 322, 327–28, 355, 363, 394–95, 397, 405, 407, 420, 428, 435, 437, 442, 445, 447
Delaunay, Robert, 71, 123–24
Delaunay, Sonia, 71, 393
Delvaux, Paul, 224
Derain, André, 165, 178
De Stijl, 127, 180
Devree, Howard, 267, 284
Diamonstein, Barbaralee, 416
Diaz, Virginia, 165, 166
Dickinson, Sydney Edward, 67
Dickler, Gerald, 344, 359, 360, 449
Diller, Burgoyne, 116, 120, 130, 144
Dobrovolskaya, Nina Michailovna, 59, 60, 159
Doesburg, Theo van, 180
Dolan, Bobby, 99
Dove, Arthur, 239
Downs, Cile, 296, 299–300, 304, 308, 321, 339, 344, 408
Downtown Gallery, New York City, 166
Dragon, Ted, 256, 260, 266, 270, 272, 337–38, 380, 403, 449
Drew, Virginia, 78
Drewes, Werner, 132, 150, 239
Duble, Lu, 206
Duboff, Sam, 289
Dubuffet, Jean, 278, 328, 339, 340
Duchamp, Marcel, 102, 156, 196, 201, 224, 226
Dudensing, Valentine, 115, 179
Dune Hame Cottage, Watch Hill, 405–6
Dunoyer de Segonzac, 165, 178
Durieux, Caroline, 421
Dykaar, Moses Weiner, 49
Dzubas, Friedel, 304
Eames, Charles, 205, 206, 213
Eames, Ray Kaiser “Buddha,” 8, 129, 203, 204, 205–6, 212–13, 239, 381, 443
El Greco, 157, 363
Eliot, T. S., 162, 228, 404
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 76, 350, 351
Emmerich, André, 438
Englesmith, Tejas, 371–72
Ernst, Jimmy, 8, 200, 205, 224, 229, 385, 434, 440
Ernst, Max, 200, 216, 224, 229, 243, 259
Erskine, Halley, 331
Evergood, Philip, 106
FBI, 109, 321–22
Federal Art Project, 86–87, 103, 113, 120, 121, 175
Feeley, Paul and Helen, 286
Ferber, Herbert, 54
Ferren, John, 239
Fine, Perle, 126, 129, 179, 320, 327, 329, 381, 385, 396, 406
Fini, Leonor, 253, 392
Flack, Audrey, 306–7, 406
Flint, Ralph, 71
Forge, Andrew, 374
Forgey, Benjamin, 403
Fox, Ruth, 270–71, 276
Frankenstein, Alfred, 387
Frankenthaler, Helen, 283, 284, 286, 294, 309, 310, 311, 316, 319, 350, 353, 357, 409
Franzese, Therese, 369
Frank K.M. Rehn Gallery, New York City, 91
Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit, 369
Freas, Jean, 284–86
Freed, Hermine, 397
Frelinghuysen, Suzy, 99, 151, 152, 239, 392
French & Company, 331–36, 399, 420
Freud, Sigmund, 295, 297, 306
Frick, Helen, 42
Friedan, Betty, 410
Friedman, Abby, 316, 321, 350
Friedman, B. H., 102, 107, 168, 172, 174, 241, 296, 307, 316, 321, 323, 329–30, 350, 355, 371, 397–98, 403, 441
Friedman, Sanford (Sandy), 328–29, 331, 344, 350, 355, 358, 360–61, 369, 380, 437
Gallatin, Albert E., 151
Gallery 67, New York City, 216, 220
Gauguin, Paul, 67, 68
Gee’s Bend, Alabama, quilting collective, 378
Geist, Sidney, 309
Geldzahler, Henry, 446
Gellert, Hugo, 113
Genauer, Emily, 275, 351
Gersing, Esther (Krasner), 448
Giacometti, Alberto, 135, 268
Gibbs, David, 339, 340–47, 353, 354, 355, 356–57, 359, 360–62, 375, 376, 379, 403, 406, 443
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 46
Gilot, Françoise, 259
Gimpel, Charles, 309, 310
Gimpel, Kay, 310
Girls’ High School, Brooklyn, 34–35, 36
Glarner, Fritz, 368
Glickman, Rena (Rusty Kanokogi), 2, 134, 367, 449, 450
Glickman, Seymour, 450
Glimcher, Arnold, 407, 420, 437, 438
Glueck, Grace, 383, 384, 393, 415, 439
Goldberg, Michael, 326
Goldwaithe, (Helena) Anne, 118
Goncharova, Natalia, 393
Goodman, Job, 83–84, 87, 126, 171
Goodnough, Robert, 275
Gorelick, Boris, 56, 73, 74, 81, 85
Gorky, Arshile, 3, 103–4, 111, 113, 115, 120, 128, 131–32, 134, 143, 148, 149, 155, 164, 178, 199–200, 205, 212, 218, 220, 252, 260, 280, 420
Gosling, Nigel, 373
Gotfryd, Bernard, 442, 447
Gottlieb, Adolph, 205, 220, 238, 245, 258, 322, 385, 394, 397, 445
Gottlieb, Harry, 94, 120
Gould, Joe, 77
Gower, Joseph, 114
Goya, Francisco de, 39, 106, 310
Graham, John D., 103, 149, 164–66, 178, 186–87, 203, 221, 308, 309, 408
Grandville, J. J., 101
Graves, Morris, 212
Graves, Nancy, 381
Great Depre
ssion, 64–65, 72, 73–74, 80, 81–82, 84–85, 93, 97, 110–11
Greenberg, Clement, 2, 3, 128–29, 139, 168, 201, 218, 240–41, 244, 267, 270, 272, 276, 279, 281–82, 283, 284, 286, 288, 294–95, 296, 304, 311, 312, 313, 319, 331, 332–36, 342, 343–45, 350, 353, 355, 371, 379, 394, 399, 406, 420
Greenberg, David, 448
Greenberg, Jenny, 334, 343
Greene, Balcomb, 73, 81, 88, 113, 114, 143, 154, 175, 180, 258, 291, 327
Greene, Gertrude “Peter” Glass, 63, 73, 88, 99, 143, 150, 392
Greene, Stephen, 104
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste, 102
Gribetz, Joel and Helen, 289–90
Gris, Juan, 325
Groh, Alan, 302
Gropper, William, 106, 111, 114, 187
Gruen, John, 387
Grünwald, Matthias, 224
Guggenheim, Benjamin, 198
Guggenheim, Pegeen [Vail], 218, 229
Guggenheim, Peggy, 6, 197–202, 197, 207, 208–13, 216, 218–20, 225–26, 229, 233–34, 239–40, 246–47, 250, 264, 265, 310, 357–58, 376
Guggenheim, Solomon, 188, 197, 294
Guglielmi, Louis, 224
Guild Hall, East Hampton, 258, 261, 291, 377, 385, 396–97, 435, 440, 441
Guston, Musa, 316
Guston, Philip, 245, 280, 316
Halpert, Edith, 166
Haney, James Parton, 37–38
Hantman, Murray, 114
Harden, Marcia Gay, 1
Hare, David, 225, 321
Harnoncourt, René d’, 157
Harris, Ann Sutherland, 408, 421
Harris, Ed, 1
Hartigan, Grace, 250–51, 257, 272, 276, 319, 328, 337, 381, 409
Hartley, Marsden, 255
Hauke, Frederick, 207
Hauke, Janet, 206–7
Hayter, Stanley William, 226–27, 273, 315
Held, Al, 353
Hélion, Jean, 218, 229
Heller, Ben, 297, 323, 347, 443
Heller, Edwin H., 257, 266
Heller, Helen West, 118
Henderson, Joseph, 207
Henri, Robert, 154
Hepworth, Barbara, 392
Herrigel, Eugen, 305
Herter, Albert and Adele, 275
Hess, Thomas, 282
Hill, Ed, 445
Hillquit, Morris, 116
Hilton, Tim, 438
Hinton, Charles Louis, 43–44, 50, 53–54, 55
Hobbs, Robert, 7, 415, 421
Höch, Hannah, 393
Hockney, David, 370
Hofmann, Hans, 3, 100, 120, 121–30, 154, 188, 213–14, 233, 239, 243, 252, 276, 280, 287
and exhibits, 210–11, 216, 220, 327
influence of, 122–23, 126, 129, 130, 158, 170, 186, 203, 204, 205, 206, 215, 303, 408, 445
Hofmann, Miz, 147, 206, 210, 213, 216
Hofmann School of Art, 1, 7, 91, 121–30, 134, 135, 140, 143, 148, 155, 206, 220, 291, 411, 415
Holty, Carl, 184, 187, 239
Holtzman, Harry, 144, 149–50, 153, 154, 182, 184
Homer, William I., 431–32
Hopkins, Henry, 446
Hopper, Edward, 71, 72, 73, 91, 124, 155, 214, 398, 423
Horn, Axel, 83
Howard, Richard, 328–29, 331, 339, 344, 350, 355, 358, 380, 420, 437
Hubbard, Elizabeth Wright, 208, 211, 218, 270, 276, 303, 304, 360, 361
Hubrecht, Bridget, 339
Hughes, Robert, 3, 407, 408, 443–44, 451
Ingersoll, Ralph, 145
Ivens, Joris, 111
Jackson, Harry, 250–51, 257, 381
Jackson, Martha, 292, 302, 322–26
Jaffee, Shirley, 353
James, Charles, 355–56, 362
Janis, Harriet, 182
Janis, Sidney, 135, 203, 204–5, 207, 209, 224, 259, 279, 283–84, 287, 291, 317–18, 343, 353, 417, 443
Janson, H. W., A History of Art, 5
Jenkins, Esther, 309, 310, 311
Jenkins, Leonard Seweryn, 133
Jenkins, Paul, 304–5, 309, 310–11, 322, 345, 353
Jewell, Edward Alden, 146, 184, 221
Jews:
and anti-Semitism, 15–16, 56, 65, 72, 73, 96, 136, 322, 391
emigration from Russia, 14–18, 21
and nationalism, 72–73, 391
and social activism, 16, 17–18, 26, 57, 450
women, traditional roles of, 18, 32, 36, 68, 364, 422
Johns, Jasper, 29, 379
Johns, Sara, 156, 163, 202, 206, 218
Johnson, Buffie, 260, 261, 318
Johnson, W. E., 353
Jonas, Robert, 59, 81, 88, 95, 96, 103, 136
Jong, Erica, 57
Josephson, Barney, 180
Judd, Donald, 379
Jules, Mervin, 173
Jumble Shop, New York, 115–16, 216
Jung, Carl, 147
Kadish, Barbara, 226
Kadish, Morris, 207
Kadish, Reuben, 82, 106, 110, 187, 207, 221, 226–27
Kainen, Jacob, 114, 120–21
Kaiser, Ray, 394
Kaldis, Aristodimos, 80, 132, 155, 164
Kalil, Susie, 444
Kamrowski, Gerome, 149, 157
Kandinsky, Wassily, 4, 6, 124, 136, 158, 180, 188, 218, 219, 284
Kanokogi, Rusty (Rena Glickman), 2, 134, 367, 449, 450
Karger, George, 197
Kass, Deborah, 412–13
Katz, Alex, 404
Kelly, Ellsworth, 357
Kent, Rockwell, 72, 120
Kernan, Michael, 442
Kernan, Nathan, 438–39, 442
Kiesler, Frederick, 122, 187, 198
Kiesler, Lillian Olinsey, 1, 122, 127, 129, 134
Kilgore, Emilie, 173
King, Annie, 386
King, Bill, 386, 408
Klein, Jerome, 146
Klein, Ralph, 294, 295, 297–99, 308, 313, 332
Kligman, Ruth, 306–8, 311, 313, 319, 327–28, 397, 402
Kline, Franz, 260, 270, 293, 307, 312, 321, 419, 445
Klitze, Theodore, 378
Knee, Gina, 265–66
Kohlmeyer, Ida, 421
Kohut, Rebekah, 36
Kozloff, Joyce, 406
Kozloff, Max, 385
Kramer, Hilton, 396, 399, 413–14, 417, 420
Krasner, Chane (Anna) Weiss (mother), 25, 31
children of, 18, 21, 22–23
death of, 329, 331, 332, 353, 420
homes of, 51–52, 72, 203
passage to New York, 13–14, 16
Krasner, Esther [Ester/Estelle] (sister), 18, 21, 448
Krasner, Ides [Ida/Edith] (sister), 18, 21
Krasner, Isak [Isadore/Irving] (brother), 18, 27, 33, 52, 64, 480n12
Krasner, Joseph (father), 24
death of, 215, 232
family background, 18–20
homes of, 51–52, 72, 203
passage to New York, 14, 15, 16
Krasner, Lee, 79, 117, 143, 177, 231, 249, 269, 289, 315, 339, 367, 389, 427
and Artists Union, see Artists Union
art of, see art; Krasner, Lee, works by
birth of (as Lena), 18
career of, 3, 29, 365, 410
childhood of, 13–29, 13
death of, 448–51
driving license of, 292–93
and dyslexia, 52–53, 245–46
in Europe, 308–11, 356–57
family of, 18, 19, 170
fashion interest of, 44–45, 47, 81, 356
FBI file on, 321–22
film about, 7, 415–16, 418, 423
health problems of, 158–59, 277, 294, 300, 304, 360–61, 363, 435, 439, 440–41, 442, 446–48
at Hofmann School, 1, 7, 121–30, 134, 143, 148, 155, 206, 291, 411, 415
honors and awards to, 421, 427–28, 439, 448, 451
and Igor, see Pantuhoff, Igor
independent spirit of, 9, 27, 31, 35, 43, 55–56, 68–69, 293, 302, 368, 373, 398–99, 414
influence of, 10�
��11, 104, 113, 245, 387, 400, 425
interviews given by, 2, 6–7, 9, 11, 273, 349, 358–59, 365, 378, 401, 407–8
and Jackson, see Pollock, Jackson
on Long Island, 226–28, 231–37, 248, 249–50, 260–61, 272, 316–17, 326–28, 362–63, 377
modeling by, 49, 57, 155–56, 163, 202, 206
and money matters, 159, 163, 189, 249–50, 251, 312, 317–18, 344, 359, 373, 450
name of, 12n, 31–33, 44, 45, 62, 70, 203, 251, 253, 371, 480n1
personal traits of, 1–2, 22, 78, 81, 98, 122, 128–29, 193, 248, 251, 285, 302, 307, 335–36, 379, 402–3, 408, 416
and politics, 106–8, 112–13, 121
and psychotherapy, 296–97, 300, 304–5
and religion, 36, 68, 170, 222–23, 364, 366, 422
reputation of, 2–4, 376, 400–402, 422, 429–30, 433, 439, 445, 451
schooling of, 24–25, 38–40
social activism of, 94, 106, 117–20, 131
talent of, 96, 408
teen years of, 31–40, 41–50
and widowhood, 315–18, 328–29, 331, 358, 372, 380, 381–82, 423, 435, 438
Krasner, Lee, works by:
Abstraction, 178
Abstract No. 2, 255
April, 324, 419
artistic influences on, 6, 67, 101–2, 117, 121, 126, 129–30, 178, 203, 219–21, 223, 237, 243, 261, 273, 274–75, 325–26, 352, 374, 382, 385, 387, 396, 413, 419, 436, 444
Assault on the Solar Plexus, 352
August Petals, 363
Autumnal, 369
Bathroom Door, 101
Birth, 323, 325, 336, 353
Blue Level, 301
Breath, 336, 351
Broken Gray, 337
The Bull, 336
catalogue raisonné of, 11, 195, 442
Cauldron, 315
Celebration, 4, 350, 352
changing, 238–39, 241, 257–58, 261, 262, 273, 274, 382, 396, 412