Lee Krasner was born October 27, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York, a modernist abstract painter and collage artist, Lee Krasner, was the wife of Jackson Pollock. In 1934, the WPA hired her to paint murals. From 1937 to 1940, she studied under Hans Hoffmann. She liked to be called Lenore, and later shortened the nickname to Lee,Krasner's. Her parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants who fled to the United States to escape anti-Semitism and the Russo-Japanese War. 
Krasner was the youngest of six children, and the only one of her siblings to be born in the United States. When she was 14, she enrolled at Washington Irving High School in New York City, where she was able to study studio art. 
When she graduated from high school in 1925, Krasner was awarded a scholarship to attend the Women's Art School of Cooper Union. Following her graduation from the Cooper Union, Krasner pursued yet more art education at the illustrious National Academy of Design, completing her course in 1932.
As her marriage to Pollock unraveled and his alcoholism escalated, Krasner moved on to experimenting with multimedia collages such as "Milkweed" (1955). She held an exhibition of these collages in New York City in 1955. The following year, Krasner had to cope with the death of Pollock after he was killed in a drunk-driving accident.