Today, guests to the site can see the barn studio just as the couple left it-paint-splattered floor and all.įrom 1883 until his death 43 years later, Impressionist pioneer Claude Monet lived and worked in Giverny, a beautiful commune in Normandy. After her husband's untimely death in 1956, however, Krasner followed suit and worked in the barn, which remained her studio for the duration of her life. The following year, however, he began working in the home's nearby barn, leaving Krasner to take over the abandoned bedroom.

In 1945, Pollock employed an upstairs bedroom as his workspace. That same year, the couple purchased what would come to be known as the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio, a charming wood-frame home in Long Island, New York.įor years, the couple had shifting studios in the home. In 1945, Abstract Expressionist and collage artist Lee Krasner married fellow painter Jackson Pollock.

The Shared Space of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock “With their shelves of paint, tools, clothing and personal items,” the Tate explains, “the studios have great historic value and offer a remarkable snapshot of the life of Hepworth.” Fortunately, much of the site remains as Hepworth intended-including her pair of studios, which she respectively used for stone carving and working in plaster-giving modern-day visitors a glimpse into her practice. In 1980, Tate took over the site and transformed it into the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden. “Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space.” In Trewyn Studios, her home and workspace, she found everything a modern artist could hope for. “Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic,” she revealed. In the 1940s, English artist Barbara Hepworth helped set up an artists' colony in the seaside town of St Ives. Stock Photos from Minka Guides/Shutterstock

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