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Lee Krasner

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

Ten 1950s artist hangouts to visit in New York

The fabled Cedar Tavern might be long gone, but there are still plenty of Greenwich Village spots where you can grab a coffee, or something stronger, in the New York of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and friends.
A Robert Motherwell dinner party, August 1964

RA Exhibitions

> 4 years ago

“Rothko’s studio matched his mood”

Delving into his own memories of New York’s Abstract Expressionist scene, Paul Huxley RA recounts dinner parties and road trips with the likes of Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler.