A monograph on the life and work of an outstanding abstract expressionist painter, now emerging as one of the most important women artists of the 20th century. Lee Krasner, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, was one of the few female artists to be given a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This volume features a selection of the artist¿s most important paintings, collages and works on paper, essays on her life and art by Eleanor Nairne, Katy Siegel, John Yau and Suzanne Hudson, an interview with her biographer, Gail Levin, and a fully illustrated chronology.