About the Author

Helen A. Harrison, the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, is an art historian and curator who specializes in modern American art. A former art critic and feature writer for The New York Times and NPR radio commentator, she has lectured widely and is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues and several books, including a monograph on Larry Rivers and (with Constance Ayres Denne) Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach. She and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, live in Sag Harbor, New York.