Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner in Pollock’s studio, 1950. Photo ©Hans Namuth Ltd. Courtesy Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center.

OUR MISSION

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

Our grants

Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock with their dog, Gyp, on their Springs property, ca. 1946. Photograph by Ronald J. Stein. ©Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY. Gift of the Estate of Ronald J. Stein.

Our Grants

POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT

 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both. The Foundation's mission is to aid, internationally, those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time. Learn More
Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock in their garden, Springs, East Hampton, 1949. Photograph by Wilfrid Zogbaum. Courtesy Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY.

Our Grants

ORGANIZATION GRANT

 Organizations whose missions directly impact 
the individual artist may apply for support of 
their programs. Learn More
Lee Krasner, photo Ernst Haas © Getty Images

Our Grants

LEE KRASNER AWARD

 Lee Krasner Awards are based on the same criteria as all regular Pollock-Krasner grants, but are given in recognition of a lifetime of artistic achievement. This honor is a tribute to and recognition of artists with long and distinguished careers. This award is by nomination only. Learn More
Jackson Pollock, photo Tony Vaccaro © Getty Images

Our Grants

POLLOCK PRIZE FOR CREATIVITY

 The Pollock Prize for Creativity honors an outstanding artist whose work embodies high creative standards and exemplifies the impact of art on individuals and society. This grant is by nomination only. Learn More

Notable grantee

  • 2018 Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors

    1/2
    Doble Fondo/Doble Bottom, 2014, disassembled table, 157 x 78 x 118 inches 1/2
    EUGENIA CALVO
    Argentina
    http://brianwallfoundation.org/news/

  • 2018 Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors

    2/2
    Fuga/Leak-escape, 2016, closet within iron structure, 236 x 118 x 118 inches 2/2
    EUGENIA CALVO
    Argentina

INSIGHTS

Lee Krasner’s wall-filling “Gaea” (1966). © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ARS, NY.; Nicole Craine for The New York Times

At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction

Funnily enough, the Museum of Modern Art has never named the long-running blockbuster show that fills its permanent-collection galleries. Click here to read the full article.

LISTEN: Art Agency Partner's conversation with Charles C. Bergman

Listen to Art Agency Partner's conversation between Charles C Bergman, Chairman & CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Christy MacLear, Vice Chairman of Art Agency Partners.
‘Blue Poles’ (1952), by Jackson Pollock (detail of painting)© The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ARS, NY.

‘Abstract Expressionism’ Review: Some Americans Abroad

At London’s Royal Academy of Arts, a pantheon of the established who’s-who of the movement. Click here to read the full article.

Inside New York's Art World: Lee Krasner, 1978

WATCH: Inside New York's Art World: Lee Krasner, 1978

Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel interviews Lee Krasner concerning her works, career, and the artists she knows, as hosted by the Duke University Libraries.
More Insights

Art Agency Partner's Conversation with Charles C. Bergman, Chairman & CEO of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Inside New York's Art World: Lee Krasner, 1978

Inside New York's Art World: Lee Krasner, 1978
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel interviews Lee Krasner concerning her works, career, and the artists she knows, as hosted by the Duke University Libraries.