Chaotic brown and black brushstrokes forming overlapping distorted faces and hands in an abstract composition.

Paintings

The Guardian

1960

Medium
Oil and house paint on canvas
Dimensions
Overall: 53 1/8 × 58 1/8 in. (134.9 × 147.6 cm)
Accession number
60.61
Acquired
1960
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Uris Brothers Foundation, Inc.
Reproduction credit
© The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Lee Krasner, The Guardian, 1960. Oil and house paint on canvas, overall: 53 1/8 × 58 1/8 in. (134.9 × 147.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Uris Brothers Foundation, Inc. 60.61. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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