the artists and critics who would become so important in his career, and embarked on 15 years of marriage and support. Pollock, whose alcoholism and emotional instability tended to interfere with his work, needed a supportive atmosphere and "Krasner appears to have been more successful than the psychotherapist in stabilizing Pollock, who entered the most innovative and productive decade of his life" (Fineberg 89).
The principal reason that is usually given for Krasner's relative obscurity as a painter is that her husband's brilliance pulled all the attention away from her. But, as Krasner herself said, "The clichT is that Lee is overshad
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