Pollock, Jackson

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).

1994   The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and New Acquisitions, The Pierpont Morgan Library New York, NY
1992   Jackson Pollock- Pollock in the Mid-Forties: A Close-Up, Jason McCoy Inc. New York, NY
1989   Jackson Pollock: Paintings & Drawings 1934-1952, Anthony D'Offay Gallery London, England
1988   Jackson Pollock: Images Coming Through, Jason McCoy Inc. New York, NY

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

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