Lee Krasner

Painter, and the only member of the New York School raised reading Hebrew — an Orthodox childhood in Brooklyn, schooled right to left. The Little Image paintings of 1946–49 are dense grids of small marks that look unmistakably like script.

⭐⭐ THE MOST DIRECT LETTER-CONNECTION IN THE WHOLE MOVEMENT, AND SHE BARELY DISCUSSED IT. The Little Images are read left to right as painting and right to left as writing, and she never resolved which they were. ⚠ And she spent thirty years being described as Pollock's wife, which is its own comment on how this history gets written.