Titled “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will examine the lives and careers of both artists, who met in New York in the 1940s

Combat , Lee Krasner, 1965 © 2026 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In 1942, when Jackson Pollock was still an emerging artist, he displayed some of his work at a group exhibition in New York City. One of the other painters in the show, fellow Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner , took an interest in Pollock’s art. Three years later, the two were married, and they maintained a collaborative relationship until Pollock’s death in 1956.

Later this year, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will examine Krasner and Pollock’s lives and careers.…