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The inseparable legacies of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner

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The old farmhouse in the hamlet of Springs, N.Y., is easy to miss, if not for the sign for the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center . Here, on the east end of Long Island, is where Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner moved in the winter of 1945. And it was here where the Abstract Expressionists would send a seismic tremor through the art world.

It was their home and workplace. The married couple moved into a house with no plumbing or heating. "It was really a choice that they made to come out here, to go into isolation almost to really focus on the work," said the Center's director Matthew K. Ward.

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