‘Each artist on their own terms’: why Lee Krasner was every bit the equal to husband Jackson Pollock

Filed by Vivien Star

At a landmark exhibition at New York’s Met Museum, Mrs Pollock finally steps out of her spouse’s shadowIn addition to managing her own career as an artist and being a devoted partner to an often unpredictable and tumultuous Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner had at least one other duty – acting as the unofficial publicist to her husband’s career.“She was a great champion of Pollock’s work, but also so aware of the gender politics of the time,” says curator David Breslin, who alongside Brinda Kumar wor