MUNCIE, Ind. (The Associated Press)—Ball State University's Museum of Art has received a painting by Lee Krasner, wife of abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, valued at $2 million.

Right Bird Left is one of two pieces of artwork recently donated to the museum by David T. Owsley, son of Lucy Ball Owsley and grandson of Frank C. Ball, one of the university's founders.

The 6-foot-by-11-foot painting was done in 1965, the same year Pollock died in a car crash.

Museum director Peter Blume said the work was an example of Krasner's "all over" painting, with a canvas covered in bold strokes, shapes and colors.

"A work that size doesn't organize itself," he said. "That is a lot of space to cover physically, and it required a good amount of planning ahead of time to do so."

Krasner's small body of work gained attention from critics following her death in 1984.

Owsley also recently donated another abstract painting, Alfred Leslie's 1959 Pythoness.