Barbara Rose photographed with Lee Krasner at 1983 Houston retrospective opening

A photograph from October 27, 1983 shows art critic Barbara Rose with artist Lee Krasner at the opening of "Lee Krasner: A Retrospective" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The image captures Krasner's 1958 painting Cornucopia in the background. This archival photograph was published on February 8, 2021 by artcritical.com. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston archives provided the image, though the photographer remains unidentified. The retrospective exhibition represented a significant presentation of Krasner's work. Barbara Rose, who died in 2020, was a prominent art historian and critic known for her writing on Abstract Expressionism. Lee Krasner was a major figure in the New York School and the wife of Jackson Pollock. The photograph documents a moment between two influential women in mid-century American art.