The inseparable legacies of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner

October 18, 2026 / 9:36 AM EDT / CBS News

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.

Now an historical site run by Stony Brook University, the Pollock-Krasner House looks much as it did when Krasner died in 1984.

Ward showed us the custom-made speaker system that Pollack himself wired through a crawlspace. It has paint all over it. "Yeah, a lot of stuff here has paint all over it!" Ward laughed.

Krasner worked in an upstairs bedroom – small, but with a view of Accabonac Creek. Pollock painted in the barn out back, but without…

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