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Ruth Appelhof[/caption]
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a New York City-based charity has awarded $25,000 to the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center for a Research Fellowship. This year’s recipient is Ruth Appelhof, Ph.D., the former director of Guild Hall, the East Hampton Cultural Center and currently a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, who is researching a book on Lee Krasner.
“We are pleased to support Dr. Appelhof's research,” the foundation's chairman and CEO, Charles C. Bergman said. “Her diligent scholarship, enhanced by her personal interaction with Lee Krasner, will contribute significantly to our goal of perpetuating Krasner's legacy.”
Dr. Appelhof's study, “Lee Krasner: The Swing of the Pendulum,” is based on material she collected for her Master's thesis on Krasner, with whom she spent time in New York City and at her East Hampton home and studio, now the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center. Making use of the study center's documentary, archival and oral history collections, as well as extensive background reading and interviews with key figures in the artist's life and career, she is constructing a narrative that combines first-person experience and insight with deep knowledge of Krasner's artistic development.
Established in 1985 under the terms of Lee Krasner Pollock's will, the Pollock-Krasner foundation provides financial assistance to individual artists of recognizable artistic merit and financial need, as well as to selected organizations that further the foundation's mission of supporting creativity and contributing to the appreciation of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's lives and work. So far, the foundation has awarded more than 4,100 grants totaling over $65 million to artists in 77 countries.
Located on the Stony Brook Southampton campus, the Pollock-Krasner Study Center's 2,000 volume art reference library focuses on modern American art and its international context, with special attention to the world-renowned eastern Long Island artists' community.
Pollock-Krasner House members are admitted free, get discounts at the museum store and help underwrite exhibitions and public programs. The research collections include the archives of the Pollock and Krasner catalogues raisonné, photographs, documents and ephemera, an oral history collection and documentaries and feature films about artists. The library is open during campus library hours and materials available to students, researchers and to the general public by appointment.
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is located at 830 Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton and is a National Historic Landmark open May through October from Thursday to Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission for adults is $5 and free for members, children under 12, SUNY/CUNY students and faculty and staff with ID.
Guided tours are available at noon by reservation. Guided tours are $10 for adults, $5 for children under 12 and free for members and SUNY/CUNY students, faculty and staff.
For information about exhibitions and programs, please visit stonybrook.edu/commcms/pkhouse.
gavinmenu on May 31, 2017