Jackson Pollock
(Cody 1912 - Long Island 1956)
American painter, recognized as the leading proponent of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Initially trained at the Art Student League in New York, first came into limelight after receiving a contract by Peggy Guggenheim and subsequent to his first solo exhibition at the Art of this Century Gallery, in 1943. Pollock´s early influences included the Regionalists, Mexican muralists, the Surrealists and artists like Picasso.
His most well-known style, consisting of abstract Action Paintings, emerged in 1947, whereby he used large canvases and poured paint, while using knives, sticks and non-conventional instruments to create his works. His paintings were first shown at the Betty Parson Gallery in New York. Although, this period of Actions paintings only lasted four years, it influenced an entire generation of Abstract Expressionists. The most famous of Pollocks´s drip or Action paintings are: Autumn Rhythm ( MOMA, New York ) and Lavendar Mist (National Gallery, Washington).
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Museum Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Convergence, 1952
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Untitled, ca.1939-40
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Red
Art Institute of Chicago
Greyed Rainbow
Art Institute of Chicago
Greyed Rainbow, 1953
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive NEW!
Number 6, 1950
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Cathedral, 1947
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland
Number 11, 1951
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)
two-sided painting, 1950-51
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
5 works online
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Silver and Black Diptych, ca.1950
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (mostly in German)
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Jackson Pollock in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Sleeping Effort, 1953
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Masqued Image, ca.1938-41
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Untitled, 1951
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Night Mist, 1945
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Untitled, drawing, 1943
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Untitled (Composition with Ritual Scene)
Jackson Pollock at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Jackson Pollock at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Catalog of Pollock's first one-person show, November 9 to 27, 1943
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Earth Worms, 1946
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
Brown and Silver I, ca.1951
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Number 9
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Number 27, 1950