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ID: 500015134 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500015134			Record Type: Person

Pollock, Jackson (American painter, 1912-1956)

Note: Pollock was one of the leading proponents of Abstract Expression in the 1940s and 1950s. His art, lifestyle, and untimely death have been elevated to the status of legend. In 1928, he studied at the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, and during this time was exposed to European modernism, analytical psychology, and Surrealist automatism. In 1930, he settled in New York, and studied with the Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton. During the 1930s he lived in poverty and worked as a mural assistant for the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project. His work before 1938 shows the influence of Benton, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and the Mexican muralists. In 1938, he was hospitalized for alcoholism during which time he used automatic drawing as therapy. From this, Pollock developed his early style, one of totemic male and female figures and images of eyes or mythic beasts that constituted a personal iconography. A fine example of this period is "Guardians of the Secret," a work of late-Surrealist style and frenetic brushwork that would hint at his later mature style. He met the painter Lee Krasner in 1941, and they married in 1945. Pollock is best known for working methods of pouring or dripping paint onto a large canvas on the floor, moving about it as he worked, the entire art process being a kind of performance. Typically moving from left to right as if "writing" the work, Pollock laid the key vertical and horizontal elements down first, mostly black or white, and then intertwined subsequent colors within it. This method of organizing a space into panels echoes Benton's theories of mural composition. Pollock was one of the first celebrity painters of the Post-War era in the USA, his free-form style and dramatic personality capturing the spirit of the Beat Generation of the early 1950s. He was killed in a car accident in 1956. Comment on works: painter

Names:
	Pollock, Jackson (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Pollock, Jackson (Dutch-P,NA)
	Jackson Pollock (V,display)
	Pollock, Paul Jackson (V)
	פולוק, ג'קסון (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	jackson Pollock (LU,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	printmaker
	engraver (printmaker)

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Cody (Park county, Wyoming, United States) (inhabited place) Died: East Hampton (Suffolk county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

associate of ....	Hartigan, Grace
......................	(American painter, 1922-2008) [500027518]

associate of ....	Meert, Joseph
......................	(American painter, 1905-1990) [500765706]

associate of ....	Mullin, Margaret
......................	(American artist, 1910-1980) [500778866]

friend of ....	Guston, Philip
................	(American painter, 1913-1980, born in Canada) [500023901]

influenced ....	Sekula, Sonja
....................	(Swiss artist, 1918-1963) [500199046]

sibling of ....	Pollock, Charles
..................	(American painter, 1902-1988) [500021801]

spouse of ....	Krasner, Lee 1945-1956
................	(American painter, 1908-1984) [500010144]

student of ....	Benton, Thomas Hart
..................	(American painter, illustrator, and lithographer, 1889-1975) [500005998]

student of ....	Feitelson, Lorser
..................	(American painter, muralist and teacher, 1898-1978 ) [500011447]

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Persons, Artists

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Pollock, Jackson (I)

Biographies:

(American painter, 1912-1956) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist, 1912-1956) ..... [GRL]
(American painter, 1912-1956) ..... [RKD]
(American painter, 1912-1956) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, 1912-1956) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1912-1956) ..... [PROV]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1912-1956) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(painter, 1912-1956) ..... [GRL]
(American painter, 1912-1956) ..... [Grove Art]
(American artist) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1912-1956) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1912-1956) ..... [WCI]
(Engraver, 1912-1956) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1912-1956) ..... [WCP]
(American, 1912-1956) ..... [GRLPA]
(American painter, 1912-1956) ..... [BHA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

פולוק, ג'קסון ........	[IMJ]
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Jackson Pollock ........	[GRISC, GRL, MoMA, PROV, VP]
................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
................................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
................................	GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)

jackson Pollock ........	[PROV]
...............................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Pollock, Jackson ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..................................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
..................................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
..................................	GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
..................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..................................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..................................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80034261
..................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
..................................	M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
..................................	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
..................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 64139
..................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Pollock, Paul Jackson ........	[AVERY, GRL, Grove Art, RKD]
...........................................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
...........................................	GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
...........................................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
...........................................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80034261
...........................................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
...........................................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 64139


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) v. 25, p. 165
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

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