• Artist: Lee Krasner
• Material: Oil on canvas
• Classification: Painting
• Measurement: 92 3/4 × 203 7/8 in

The Seasons is one of Lee Krasner’s most ambitious and emotionally charged paintings. Made in the aftermath of personal loss and the death of her spouse, Jackson Pollock, the enormous canvas vibrates with color, rhythm, and vegetal shapes. While somber color is what usually attends loss, the color in The Seasons is lush and celebratory, with blooming, swirling patterns that imply chaos and rebirth. The work’s scale and power express Krasner’s determination to make herself known as an individual artist in her own right, not as an asterisk in the work of another. Through her flowing brushstrokes, she depicts both natural scenes and myths that convey basic human feelings within structured painting forms. Each painting in The Seasons combines surrealistic and abstract techniques with expressionist strategies. Krasner holds onto the big canvas, which represents her renewal of choice in the artwork.