That Krasner was not conventionally attractive is often remarked on. Her biographer, Levin, who knew Krasner, writes, “I never considered Lee ugly, as several of her contemporaries and some writers have emphasized since her death.” But Levin does go on at length about Krasner’s great figure, even quoting a fellow female student at the Academy describing “the extremely ugly, elegantly stylized Lee Krasner. She had a huge nose, pendulous lips, bleached hair in a long, slick bob, and a dazzlingly beautiful, luminously white body.” Ever notice how no one ever talks about how Picasso wasn’t
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