Artist: Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Jackson Pollack grew up on the west coast, influenced by the art of the Native American and Mexican cultures in his area. He also was impressed by the brash techniques of Benton and the Regionalists. One of his other interests, psychology, found its way into Pollack’s work. In the Surrealist style, he began to paint spontaneously, as a way to depict subconscious thoughts and feelings. Pollack’s alcoholism and misunderstood paintings pushed him into isolation until 1947, when he introduced his “drip” technique. This process of dripping paint straight from the can onto a canvas made Pollack famous. However, his production decreased in the 1950’s and he died in a car crash in 1956.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Jackson Pollock Untitled etching and engraving circa 1944
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No. 15, Jackson Pollock (United States, Wyoming, Cody, 1912 - 1956) , 1950, Oil on masonite
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Untitled, Jackson Pollock (United States, Wyoming, Cody, 1912 - 1956) , 1951, Silkscreen
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Jackson Pollock, Robert Arneson (United States, 1930 - 1992) , 1983, White earthenware, glaze
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Black and White Number 20, Jackson Pollock (United States, Wyoming, Cody, 1912 - 1956) , 1951, Oil on canvas
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Gilbert Stuart - Catherine Yates Pollock (Mrs. George Pollock) 1793-1794 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Red 1950 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Untitled, Jackson Pollock (United States, Wyoming, Cody, 1912 - 1956) , circa 1945, Crayon, pastel and gouache on paper
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© Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Jackson Pollock, American, 1912-1956 Number
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Untitled, Jackson Pollock (United States, Wyoming, Cody, 1912 - 1956) , circa 1938-1940, Pencil and colored crayon on paper
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Jackson Pollock - Number 5 1950 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Untitled 1943 brush and ink on col Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - The She-Wolf 1943 oil, gouache, and pl The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Gothic 1944 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Cathedral 1947 enamel and aluminum Dallas Museum of Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Pattern c. 1945 watercolor, brush an Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - Number 15 1951 Watercolor and ink o The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American
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Jackson Pollock - Number 6 1950 oil on canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - Untitled 1939-1940 pencil, pastel Arkansas Arts Center American
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© Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ; Jackson Pollock, American, 1912-1956 Troubled
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Jackson Pollock - Stenographic Figure 1942 oil on linen The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - White Light 1954 oil, enamel, and alu The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Water Figure 1945 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - Full Fathom Five 1947 oil on canvas with n The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Shimmering Substance 1946 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Greyed Rainbow 1953 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Jackson Pollock - Composition With Pouring II 1943 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - Night Mist 1945 oil on canvas Norton Museum of Art American
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Gilbert Stuart - George Pollock 1793-1794 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Number 2, 1951 1951 collage of paper soa Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - Number 7, 1951 1951 enamel on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Number 25, 1950 1950 encaustic on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - Sleeping Effort Number 3 1953 oil on canvas Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - One: Number 31, 1950 1950 oil and enamel on un The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Echo: Number 25, 1951 1951 enamel on unprimed c The Museum of Modern Art American
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Jackson Pollock - Number 3, 1949: Tiger 1949 oil, enamel, metalli Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) 1950 oil,enamel and alumi National Gallery of Art American
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Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956)Oil on canvas; H. 105, W. 207
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Thomas Pollock Anshutz The Ironworkers' Noontime oil on canvas 1880
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Thomas Pollock Anshutz Pennsylvania Scene watercolor on wove paper circa 1893
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Julia Jackson
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Costume Sketch for Marlon Jackson of the Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Pen on paper
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Costume Sketch for Randy Jackson of the Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Pen on paper
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Costume Sketch for Jackie Jackson of the Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Pen on paper
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Costume Sketch for Michael Jackson of the Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Pen on paper
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Costume Sketch for Tito Jackson of the Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Pen on paper
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Thomas Sully - Andrew Jackson 1845 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Hiram Powers - Andrew Jackson 1834-35 marble The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Thomas Pollock Anshutz Recto: Man and Woman on the Beach~Verso: Beach Scene r: watercolor~v: watercolor circa 1890 - 1900
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Costume Sketch for Randy Jackson of The Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Gouache on paper
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Costume Sketch for Michael Jackson of The Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Gouache on paper
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Costume Sketch for Marlon Jackson of The Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Gouache on paper
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson 1867 albumen silver print The Art Institute of Chicago
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson 1867 albumen print from c National Gallery of Art British
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Costume Sketch for Tito Jackson of The Jackson Five, Boyd Clopton (United States, 1935 - 1989) , 1970s, Gouache on paper mounted on cardboard mat
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George Romney - Mrs. Thomas Scott Jackson c. 1770-1773 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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William Rush - General Andrew Jackson 1819 Terracotta The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Julia Margaret Cameron - Julia Jackson Duckworth 1867 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Julia Duckworth
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Marked by William Cripps, free 1738– died in 1766 Two Chafing Dishes London, England England,

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Brooklyn Museum of Art: Lee Krasner
While Krasner has been indelibly associated with Pollock, this show places her work in a larger context of painterly influences - including Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian - and chronicles her approach to pushi...
Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen: Jackson Pollock: Works from the MoMA and European Collections
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is one of the most prominent representatives of post-war redefined American painting. In his revolutionary pictures of the late 40s he dripped and poured the paint ...
Pollock-Krasner Foundation: Derek Culley Awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Culley did his masters degree in marketing through Brunel University, 1992-94, his dissertation subject being “Marketing of the visual arts in Britain – are there lessons to be learned from Europe?” Culley was a founder member and chairman ...
Williams College: Jackson Pollock at Williams College
Jackson Pollock at Williams College will feature Number 2, 1949, from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art; Number 13A, 1948: Arabesque, from the Yale University Art Gallery; and Number 7, 1950, from New York’s Museum of Modern...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Jackson Pollock, Robert Frank, and the New American Vision: Drawings and Photographs from the Fo
In photography, Harry Callahan, Nathan Lyons, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White followed diverse paths in the pursuit of abstraction. ...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Works by Helen Frankenthaler
According to the critic, Clement Greenberg, “Mountains and Sea" (1952), Frankenthaler's first “stained painting,” was the 'first monument of Post-Painterly Abstraction,’ and it is certainly one of the most important works in the 'Colour-Field' sty...
Everson Museum of Art: AMERICAN ART SINCE 1946
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State Museum of Pennsylvania: ART OF THE STATE, 2004: the 37th Annual Juried Exhibition
Mr. Di Falco is featured in the 2004 and 2005 editions of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA, because of his thirty year career in art. He is also the recipient of: a Artist's Residency in 2003 at The Philadelphia Museum of Art; a $30,000 Fellowship Award from ...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Photographs of Artists
Don't miss this opportunity to come face to face with artists represented in the Gallery's collection such as Henri...
Cleveland Museum of Art: The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints
The prints range from small drypoints to mural-sized screenprints and lithographs. Masters in New York, such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Adolph Gottlieb, are included, as well as printmakers like Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Olivei...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Action-Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976
Beginning in the 1940s, Pollock and de Kooning created paintings and sculptures that catapulted American art onto the international stage. In magazines as diverse as Partisan Review, The Nation, ARTnews and Vogue, Greenberg and Rosenberg wrote inc...
Pollock Fine Art: Drawings 1978-2006: Andy Warhol, Robert Hawkins and Jonathan Meese
Hawkins royals are fabulous in a different way; an extended genealogy chart from the Planet of the Apes, beginning with the coupling of two ancestral lines.Here there is no evolution, just gems and pathos drawn in reversed chiaroscuro. The pure dr...
Show of Hands Gallery: The Midas Touch: Works by Gerard Di Falco
DiFalco won this year’s prestigious Pollock-Krasner Fellowship in Painting, and was awarded the highest monetary amount by the internationally renowned foundation. This award was established from the estates of American painters, Jackson Pol...
Paul Engle Center for Arts: Expressions in Abstract : Abby Jones
Abstract expressionism can be defined as a style expressing the artist's ideas or sensations in a manner that, at first glance, appears to be a random, spontaneous application of paint. "The idea that abstract expressionists merely splatter...
Plains Art Museum: Theodore Waddell: A Retrospective, 1960-2000
Theodore Waddell has long been recognized as one of Montana's most important contemporary artists - one who has played a significant role in the development of late modernism in Montana and the West. His intimate relationship to the land and peop...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Grey Art Gallery, New York University: Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s
The show allows viewers to see how one artist chose to portray another and to view stellar, but rarely exhibited, works by such renowned artists as Josef Albers, Willem ...
MASS MoCA: Philip Guston's Caricatures of Richard Nixon
Guston was born in Montreal, Canada, to a family who emigrated from Odessa, in the Ukraine. His family moved to Los Angeles where Guston attended high school and where he met Jackson Pollock. By age 15, he had decided to become an artist, and enro...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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American Art Dealers Association (ADAA): 16th Annual Exhibition to be Held at the Seventh Regiment Armory
This year The Art Show highlights a group of solo-shows that are ambitious and not to be missed. Continuing their tradition of showing a single artist at The Art Show for the last several years, PaceWildenstein will present recent works by the Abs...
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko
We are very pleased to present this exhibition of modern masterpieces from the permanent collection of the Guggenheim," said Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. "Renoir to Rothko offers a sweeping overview of painting from th...
Museen der Stadt Wien: Dreams 1900-2000: Art, Science and the Unconscious
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Brian Gross Fine Art: Chad Buck: LYHT / LHUDE / NU
The vibrant palette of deep blues, radiant reds, ghostly greys, and soft whites lend an optical intensity and structure to the strong color and formal composition. Buck's reductive paintings are extraordinarily contemplative and render a powerful...
First Street Gallery: THE FOUNTAINS - Lisa Zwerling
The Fountain of Youth is dedicated to the memory of the five Robinson brothers: the artist's father David and her four uncles Samuel, Julius, Irving, and Ephraim. Irving appears in The Fountain of Youth as the old man carried by the young man o...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Elaine Kurtz: Alluvial Paintings
Today, contemporary painters incorporate into their work media as various as flour, salt, perfume and chocolate in an effort to challenge our expectations and to invigorate the traditional...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Gestures: Postwar American and European Abstraction from the Permanent Collection
Abstract Expressionism and art informel emerged independently of one another in the mid-1940s and flourished during a redefining period. After World War II, the cultural environment in the United States was, by today’s standards, extremely natio...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Exhibition Reveals Lee Krasner’s Crucial Contributions to Modern Art
Organized by Independent Curators International, this revealing exhibition demonstrates Krasner’s lifelong refusal to settle on a single style with which to express her artistic and personal concerns, and examines her position as one of the most...
White Room Gallery: Living Colour: Paintings by John Nolan
John has been inspired by the work of many artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Howard Hodgkins, Tony O Malley, Albert Irvin, Louis le brocquy, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, the list is endless. His father, who was an artis...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition will count off the major historical ev...
Museum Jan van der Togt: Sam Francis
Sam Francis was a citizen of the world who lived for art. American by birth, he has spend a large part of his live in Europe (Paris and Bern), Tokyo and New York. Some of his paintings have been partly created in Paris, worked on in New York, and ...
National Gallery: Encounters: NEW art from OLD
The National Gallery has always been a resource for artists, and the Collection offers many examples of how artists in other times have wrestled with traditi...
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Mercedes Matter: A Retrospective Exhibition
When the Matter retrospective was recently shown at Baruch College in Manhattan, the Wall Street Journal declared it "one of the best New York painting exhibitions" and said it gives us "the monumental achievement of a monumental, but sadly overlo...
Reading Museum, Blake's Lock Museum: Homages and Other Things: Lorenzo Belenguer
Lorenzo Belenguer was born in Valencia, on Spain‚s Mediterranean coast, in 1970. After obtaining a degree in Economics at the local University in 1993, he decided he wanted to take his life in a different conceptual and geographic direction. He ...
Free Gallery: Majority Rulles! Part Two Opens
absolutearts.com Premiere Portfolio Artist and 2002 Pollock-Krasner Fellow, Gerard Di Falcó, is one of the eleven artists chosen for the exhibition at the Free Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. His acrylic on canvas painting, "Bambine della Mezzan...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art
The exhibition begins with a powerful Picasso drawing of a head dated 1906. Then come a variety of experimental works by George Grosz, Paul Klee, Georges Roualt, and Wyndham Lewis, who represent some of the advanced artistic movements of the 1920s...
Agora Gallery: Birth, Death, Rebirth, Re-death: Work by Antonio Puri
Puri says it has become the driving force of his art. I realized that circles are the perfect manifestation of timelessness, states Puri, gesturing to a phosphorescent sphere hovering in protospace, I want to c...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Akron Art Museum: Lee Krasner
The traveling exhibition comprises sixty paintings, collages, and drawings on loan from major collections around the world. Together, these works-many of them not publicly exhibited in decades-present the complete trajectory of Krasner's work. ...

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