The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 80 to 71
It is perhaps unfair that Brooklyn-born Krasner is best known as Jackson Pollock’s wife, and it was something she struggled with, along with being a woman painter in macho, male-dominated abstract expressionism. But unlike a lot of dysfunctional artist relationships, Pollock and Krasner fed off each other’s energy, and though she was overshadowed by his enormous breakout fame, serious critics rightfully place her as a central figure in the New York School, an artist who helped define what the world knew as American abstract expressionism. And though perhaps it’s more revealing about MoMA then anything else, Krasner is only one of four women to ever have a full retrospective there.