Jackson Pollock#List of major works

File:Jackson Pollock (cropped).jpg

Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, on January 28, 1912,{{cite book|last=Piper|first=David|title=The Illustrated History of Art|year=2000|publisher=Chancellor Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-7537-0179-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto0000pipe_t1d3/page/460 460–461]|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedhisto0000pipe_t1d3/page/460}} the youngest of five brothers. His parents, Stella May (née McClure) and LeRoy Pollock, were born and grew up in Tingley, Iowa, and were educated at Tingley High School. Pollock's mother is interred at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa. His father had been born with the surname McCoy, but took the surname of his adoptive parents. Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; they were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent, respectively.{{cite book|last=Friedman|first=B.H.|title=Jackson Pollock : energy made visible|year=1995|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-306-80664-3|edition=1|page=4}} LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government, moving for different jobs. Stella, proud of her family's heritage as weavers, made and sold dresses as a teenager. In November 1912, Stella took her sons to San Diego; Jackson was just 10 months old and would never return to Cody.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vbLYDjP6BZkC&q=Stella%20May%20Pollock&pg=PA15|title=Jackson Pollock: A Biography|last=Solomon|first=Deborah|date=June 26, 2001|publisher=Cooper Square Press|isbn=9781461624271|pages=15–16, 21|language=en}} He subsequently grew up in Arizona and Chico, California.

While living in the Vermont Square neighborhood of Los Angeles, he enrolled at Manual Arts High School,{{cite web|title=Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School: Local History Timeline|url=http://www.ollalumni.com/local-history.php|access-date=June 24, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715000634/http://www.ollalumni.com/local-history.php|archive-date=July 15, 2011|url-status=dead}} from which he was expelled. He had already been expelled in 1928 from another high school. During his early life, Pollock explored Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father.{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Sickels|title=The 1940s|url=https://archive.org/details/s00sick|url-access=limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/s00sick/page/n240 223]|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2004|isbn=978-0-313-31299-1}} He was also heavily influenced by Mexican muralists, particularly José Clemente Orozco,{{cite news |last1=Cotter |first1=Holland |title=How Mexico's Muralists Lit a Fire Under U.S. Artists |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/arts/design/vida-americana-mexican-muralists-whitney.html |access-date=May 18, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=February 20, 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Polcari |first1=Stephen |title=Orozco and Pollock: Epic Transfigurations |journal=American Art |date=1992 |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=37–57 |doi=10.1086/424159 |jstor=3109102 |s2cid=194040790 |issn=1073-9300}} whose fresco Prometheus he would later call "the greatest painting in North America".{{cite web |title=José Clemente Orozco's Prometheus |url=https://www.pomona.edu/museum/collections/jos%C3%A9-clemente-orozcos-prometheus |website=Pomona College |access-date=May 18, 2020}}

In 1930, following his older brother Charles Pollock, he moved to New York City, where they both studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Benton's rural American subject matter had little influence on Pollock's work, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were more lasting. In the early 1930s, Pollock spent a summer touring the Western United States together with Glen Rounds, a fellow art student, and Benton, their teacher.{{cite web |url=http://www.nclhof.org/inductees/2002-2/glen-rounds/|title=Glen Rounds|publisher=North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame|access-date=September 15, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thepilot.com/news/features/article_00cdf3e2-e357-11e2-bf41-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm|title=Malcolm Blue Society Celebrates 40 Years|date=July 8, 2013|access-date=September 15, 2014|publisher=ThePilot.com}}

Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936 at an experimental workshop in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. In the summer, he went to Dartmouth College to study José Clemente Orozco's 3,200 square foot mural, The Epic of American Civilization.{{Cite news |last=Hassett |first=Meghan K. |title=Orozco and Pollock at the Hood |url=https://dartreview.com/orozco-and-pollock-at-the-hood/ |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=The Dartmouth Review |date=May 2, 2012 |language=en}} He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases of the early 1940s, such as Male and Female and Composition with Pouring I. After his move to Springs, New York, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor and he developed what was later called his "drip" technique.

File:Pollock signature.jpg

From 1938 to 1942 Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project.{{cite web |url=http://www.beatmuseum.org/pollock/jacksonpollock.html |title=Jackson Pollock |access-date=September 28, 2007 |publisher=The American Museum of Beat Art}} During this time Pollock was trying to deal with his established alcoholism; from 1938 through 1941 he underwent Jungian psychotherapy with Dr. Joseph L. Henderson and later with Dr. Violet Staub de Laszlo in 1941–42. Henderson engaged him through his art, encouraging Pollock to make drawings. Jungian concepts and archetypes were expressed in his paintings.{{cite web |url=http://serdar-hizli-art.com/abstract_art/jackson_pollock_psychoanalytic_drawings.htm |title=Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock's "Psychoanalytic Drawings" Paintings |access-date=July 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615044835/http://serdar-hizli-art.com/abstract_art/jackson_pollock_psychoanalytic_drawings.htm |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |last=Stockstad |first=Marilyn |title= Art History |year= 2005 |publisher=Pearson Education, Inc. |location=Upper Saddle River, New Jersey |isbn=978-0-13-145527-6}} Some psychiatrists have hypothesized that Pollock might have had bipolar disorder.{{Cite journal

| issue = 2

| pages = 131–147

| year = 2001

| pmid = 11433879

| volume = 72

| journal = The Psychiatric Quarterly

| last1 = Rothenberg

| title = Bipolar illness, creativity, and treatment

| doi = 10.1023/A:1010367525951 |first1 = A.

| s2cid = 31980246

}}

Pollock signed a gallery contract with Peggy Guggenheim in July 1943. He received the commission to create the {{convert|8|by|20|ft|m|adj=on}} Mural (1943){{cite news|first=Jori|last=Finkel|date=June 26, 2012|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-jun-26-la-et-pollock-getty-20120626-story.html|title=Pollock painting to get the Getty touch|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} for the entry to her new townhouse. At the suggestion of her friend and advisor Marcel Duchamp, Pollock painted the work on canvas, rather than the wall, so that it would be portable. After seeing the big mural, the art critic Clement Greenberg wrote: "I took one look at it and I thought, 'Now that's great art,' and I knew Jackson was the greatest painter this country had produced."[http://uima.uiowa.edu/mural/ Jackson Pollock, Mural (1943)] University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City. The catalog introducing his first exhibition described Pollock's talent as "volcanic. It has fire. It is unpredictable. It is undisciplined. It spills out of itself in a mineral prodigality, not yet crystallized."Sweeney, James Johnson, Catalog- Introduction- Pollock's First Exhibition, New York, 1943.

{{Like essay|date=February 2025|section}}

Pollock's most famous paintings were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. However, when investigating the impact that other artists have had on Pollock and his "drip paintings", the time that Pollock spent working and studying in the Experimental Workshop with David Alfaro Siqueiros in 1936 is rarely investigated or acknowledged. According to Robert Storr, "there is no other experience in his professional life that is equal to the decade that he spent learning from and observing the modern Mexican muralists…," especially when comparing this period of informal training to his formal education with Thomas Hart Benton, which, although critical to his beginnings, was short lived.[Robert Storr, A Piece of the Action (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1999-p.35 Additionally, when specifically asked about how the "drip" came to be, Pollock disavowed his association with Siquieros on multiple occasions and made contradictory statements. For example, in 1947, Pollock suggests that he painted his canvases on the floor because he witnessed the Navajo sand artist at the Natural History Museum in New York do it in 1941 (five years after he witnessed Siqueiros do it in 1936), and soon after, he suggested that he painted his canvases on the floor because "the Oriental’s did it".Robert Storr, A Piece of the Action (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1999, p.57–58) Eventually, Pollock became famous from his "drip" paintings, and on August 8, 1949, in a four-page spread in Life magazine, he was asked, "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" Thanks to the mediation of Alfonso Ossorio, a close friend of Pollock, and the art historian Michel Tapié, the young gallery owner Paul Facchetti, from March 7, 1952, managed to realize the first exhibition of Pollock's works from 1948 to 1951{{Cite book|title=Jackson Pollock|last1=Tapié|first1=Michel|last2=Ossorio|first2=Alfonso|publisher=Paul Facchetti|year=1952|location=Paris|pages=8|oclc = 30601793}} in his Studio Paul Facchetti in Paris and in Europe.Documents and lists of works from the exhibition can be found in the Facchetti Archives with his son Jean-Paul Agosti and in the Kandinsky Library in the Archives of the Centre Pompidou, Paris. At the peak of his fame, Pollock abruptly abandoned the drip style.{{cite web|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/saltz/saltz9-18-06.asp |title=The Tempest|author = Jerry Saltz |format = reprint|publisher=Artnet.com |access-date=August 30, 2009}} Pollock's drip paintings were influenced by the artist Janet Sobel; the art critic Clement Greenberg would later report that Pollock "admitted" to him that Sobel's work "had made an impression on him."{{Cite news |last=Grovier |first=Kelly |title=Janet Sobel: The woman written out of history |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220307-janet-sobel-the-woman-written-out-of-history |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=BBC |date=March 8, 2022 |language=en}}

Pollock's work after 1951 was darker in color, including a collection painted in black on unprimed canvases. These paintings have been referred to as his "Black pourings" and when he exhibited them at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, none of them sold. Parsons later sold one to a friend at half the price. These works show Pollock attempting to find a balance between abstraction and depictions of the figure.William Cook, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5BNv7H97g3SpczrK56dHngF/jackson-pollocks-forgotten-bleak-masterpieces-the-30-year-wait-for-black-pourings-exhibition "Jackson Pollock's forgotten bleak masterpieces: The 30-year wait for 'black pourings' exhibition"], BBC — Arts, June 30, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2015.

He later returned to using color and continued with figurative elements.{{cite web |url=http://www.jackson-pollock.com/biography.html |title=Biography |access-date=September 28, 2007 |publisher=Jackson-pollock.com}} During this period, Pollock had moved to the Sidney Janis Gallery, a more commercial gallery; the demand for his work from collectors was great. In response to this pressure, along with personal frustration, his alcoholism deepened.[http://www.jackson-pollock.com/downfall.html "Downfall of Pollock"], Jackson Pollock website. Retrieved July 23, 2010.

Pollock and Lee Krasner met while they both exhibited at the McMillen Gallery in 1942. Krasner was unfamiliar yet intrigued with Pollock's work and went to his apartment, unannounced, to meet him following the gallery exhibition.Hobbs, Robert. Lee Krasner. New York: Abbeville Press, 1993. p.7 In October 1945, Pollock and Krasner were married in a church with two witnesses present for the event.Rose, Barbara. "Krasner|Pollock: A Working Relationship". New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1981. p.4 In November, they moved out of the city to the Springs area of East Hampton on the south shore of Long Island. With the help of a down-payment loan from Peggy Guggenheim, they bought a wood-frame house and barn at 830 Springs Fireplace Road. Pollock converted the barn into a studio. In that space, he perfected his "drip" technique of working with paint, with which he would become permanently identified. When the couple found themselves free from work they enjoyed spending their time together cooking and baking, working on the house and garden, and entertaining friends.Rose, Barbara. "Krasner|Pollock: A Working Relationship". New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1981. p.8.

File:Pollock-barn.jpg]]

Krasner's influence on her husband's art was something critics began to reassess by the latter half of the 1960s due to the rise of feminism at the time.Tucker, Marcia. "Lee Krasner: Large Paintings". New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973. pg.7 Krasner's extensive knowledge and training in modern art and techniques helped her bring Pollock up to date with what contemporary art should be. Krasner is often considered to have tutored her husband in the tenets of modernistic painting.Rose, Barbara. "Krasner|Pollock: A Working Relationship". New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1981. p.6{{Cite book |last1=Naifeh |first1=Steven |last2=Smith |first2=Gregory White |year=1989 |title=Jackson Pollock: An American Saga |url=https://archive.org/details/jacksonpollockam00naif |url-access=registration |publisher=Clarkson N. Potter |isbn=978-0-517-56084-6 }} Pollock was then able to change his style to fit a more organized and cosmopolitan genre of modern art, and Krasner became the one judge he could trust.Berger, John. "Portraits: John Berger on Artists". London: Verso, 2015. p.369 At the beginning of the two artists' marriage, Pollock would trust his peers' opinions on what did or did not work in his pieces. Krasner was also responsible for introducing him to many collectors, critics, and artists, including Herbert Matter, who would help further his career as an emerging artist.Landau, E.G., Cernuschi, C. "Pollock Matters". Boston: McMullen Museum of Art Boston College, 2007. p.19 Art dealer John Bernard Myers once said "there would never have been a Jackson Pollock without a Lee Pollock", whereas fellow painter Fritz Bultman referred to Pollock as Krasner's "creation, her Frankenstein", both men recognizing the immense influence Krasner had on Pollock's career.Chave, Anna. "Pollock and Krasner: Script and Postscript". The President and Fellows of Harvard College acting through the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1993. Anthropology and Aesthetics, No. 24, p.95

Jackson Pollock's influence on his wife's artwork is often discussed by art historians. Many people thought that Krasner began to reproduce and reinterpret her husband's chaotic paint splatters in her own work.Wagner, Anne M. "Lee Krasner as L.K.", Representations, No. 25 (Winter, 1989): 42–57. PRINT. p.44 There are several accounts where Krasner intended to use her own intuition as a way to move towards Pollock's I am nature technique in order to reproduce nature in her art.Anne M Wagner. Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O'Keeffe. (Berkeley: University of California, 1996.) p. 107

File:Pollock-green.jpg]]

In 1955, Pollock painted Scent and Search, his last two paintings.[http://www.warholstars.org/abstractexpressionism/timeline/abstractexpressionism55.html Abstract Expressionism in 1955] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825184240/http://www.warholstars.org/abstractexpressionism/timeline/abstractexpressionism55.html |date=August 25, 2017 }}. Retrieved August 28, 2009. He did not paint at all in 1956, but was making sculptures at Tony Smith's home: constructions of wire, gauze, and plaster. Shaped by sand-casting, they have heavily textured surfaces similar to what Pollock often created in his paintings.[http://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/exhibitions/2012-09-07_jackson-pollock-and-tony-smith-sculpture/ "Jackson Pollock & Tony Smith: Sculpture, An Exhibition on the Centennial of their Births, September 7 - October 27, 2012"], Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.

Pollock and Krasner's relationship began to crumble by 1956, owing to Pollock's continuing alcoholism and infidelity involving another artist, Ruth Kligman.Rose, Barbara. Lee Krasner: A Retrospective. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1983. p.95 On August 11, 1956, at 10:15 p.m., Pollock died in a single-car crash in his Oldsmobile convertible while driving under the influence of alcohol. At the time, Krasner was visiting friends in Europe; she abruptly returned on hearing the news from a friend. One of the passengers, Edith Metzger, was also killed in the accident, which occurred less than a mile from Pollock's home. The other passenger, Ruth Kligman, survived.Varnedoe, Kirk and Karmel, Pepe, Jackson Pollock: Essays, Chronology, and Bibliography, Exhibition catalog, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, Chronology, p. 328, 1998, {{ISBN|0-87070-069-3}} In December 1956, four months after his death, Pollock was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. A larger, more comprehensive exhibition of his work was held there in 1967. In 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London.

For the rest of her life, his widow Lee Krasner managed his estate and ensured that Pollock's reputation remained strong despite changing art world trends. The couple are buried in Green River Cemetery in Springs with a large boulder marking his grave and a smaller one marking hers.

The work of Thomas Hart Benton, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró influenced Pollock.{{cite book|last=Karmel|first=Pepe|title=Jackson Pollock: Interviews, Articles, and Reviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNoX4iTHPs0C&pg=PA151|access-date=May 4, 2013|series=In Conjunction with the Exhibition "Jackson Pollock"... The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 1, 1998 to February 2, 1999|year=1999|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-87070-037-8|pages=151–}}{{cite web|first=Caitlin A.|last=Johnson|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/picassos-influence-on-american-artists/|title=Picasso's Influence On American Artists|work=CBS Sunday Morning|date=January 18, 2007}}{{cite book|last=Emmerling|first=Leonard|title=Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IF2P-sLngmsC&pg=PA48|access-date=May 4, 2013|year=2003|publisher=Taschen| isbn=978-3-8228-2132-9|pages=48–}}

Pollock started using synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which at that time was a novel medium. Pollock described this use of household paints, instead of artist's paints, as "a natural growth out of a need".{{cite web |url=http://painting.about.com/od/colourtheory/a/Pollock_paint.htm |title=What Paint Did Pollock Use? |access-date=September 28, 2007 |last=Boddy-Evans |first=Marion |publisher=about.com |archive-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209114820/http://painting.about.com/od/colourtheory/a/Pollock_paint.htm |url-status=dead }} He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve his own signature style palimpsest paintings, with paints flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions.{{cite book |last1=Landau |first1=E.G. |title=Jackson Pollock's Mural: The Transitional Moment |date=2014 |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |location=Norway |isbn=9781606063231 |page=8}}

In 1936, Pollock participated in an experimental workshop run by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.{{cite web | url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-pollock-siqueiros-fought-fascism-radical-art | title=How Jackson Pollock and David Alfaro Siqueiros Fought Fascism | date=July 19, 2017 }} It was there that he first used liquid enamel paints, which he continued to incorporate in his paintings in the early to mid 1940s, long before he encountered the work of

the Ukrainian American artist Janet Sobel (1894–1968) (born Jennie Lechovsky).{{Cite web |url=http://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/biography/janet_sobel/ |title=Janet Sobel (1894-1968) |publisher=Hollis Taggart Galleries |access-date=December 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712213618/http://www.hollistaggart.com/artists/biography/janet_sobel/ |archive-date=July 12, 2011 |url-status=dead }} Peggy Guggenheim included Sobel's work in her The Art of This Century Gallery in 1945.{{cite web|url=http://bigthink.com/ideas/18624|title=Mother of Invention|author=Bob Duggan|work=Big Think|date=June 27, 2013 }} Jackson Pollock and art critic Clement Greenberg saw Sobel's work there in 1946 and later Greenberg noted that Sobel was "a direct influence on Jackson Pollock's drip painting technique".{{Cite book |last=Cooke |first=Lynne |year=2018 |title=Outliers and American Vanguard Art |location=Washington, D.C.; Chicago |publisher=National Gallery of Art (U.S.); University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226522272 |oclc=975487095}} In his essay "American-Type Painting", Greenberg noted those works were the first of all-over painting he had seen, and said, "Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him".{{cite book|last=Karmel|first=Pepe|title=Jackson Pollock: Interviews, Articles, and Reviews|series=In Conjunction with the Exhibition "Jackson Pollock" - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 1, 1998 to February 2, 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNoX4iTHPs0C&pg=PA273|access-date=May 4, 2013|year=1999|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-87070-037-8|page=273}}

While painting this way, Pollock moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. He used the force of his whole body to paint, which was expressed on the large canvases. In 1956, Time magazine dubbed Pollock "Jack the Dripper" due to his painting style.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808194-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117114459/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,808194-2,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 17, 2007 |title=The Wild Ones |access-date=September 15, 2008 |magazine=Time (magazine) |date=February 20, 1956}}

{{blockquote

|text=My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be {{em|in}} the painting.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

When I am {{em|in}} my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

|author=Jackson Pollock|source=My Painting, 1947{{cite book|author=Jackson Pollock|title=Jackson Pollock: Interviews, Articles, and Reviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vNoX4iTHPs0C&q=%22My%20painting%20does%20not%20come%20from%20the%20easel.%20I%20hardly%20ever%20stretch%20the%20canvas%22&pg=PA17|year=1999|publisher=The Museum of Modern Art|isbn=978-0-87070-037-8|page=17}}}}

Pollock observed Native American sandpainting demonstrations in the 1940s. Referring to his style of painting on the floor, Pollock stated, "I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. This is akin to the methods of the Indian sand painters of the West."Jackson Pollock, "My Painting", in Pollock: Painting (edited by Barbara Rose), New York: Agrinde Publications Ltd (1980), p. 65; originally published in Possibilities I, New York, Winter 1947-48 Other influences on his drip technique include the Mexican muralists and Surrealist automatism. Pollock denied reliance on "the accident"; he usually had an idea of how he wanted a particular work to appear. His technique combined the movement of his body, over which he had control, the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the absorption of paint into the canvas. It was a mixture of controllable and uncontrollable factors. Flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering, he would move energetically around the canvas, almost as if in a dance, and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see.

Austrian artist Wolfgang Paalen's article on totem art of the indigenous people of British Columbia, in which the concept of space in totemist art is considered from an artist's point of view, influenced Pollock as well; Pollock owned a signed and dedicated copy of the Amerindian Number of Paalen's magazine (DYN 4–5, 1943). He had also seen Paalen's surrealist paintings in an exhibition in 1940."In Mexico City, he [Motherwell] visited Wolfgang Paalen whose show Baziotes and Jackson [Pollock] had seen at the Julien Levy Gallery the year before." Steven Naifeh, p. 414. Another strong influence must have been Paalen's surrealist fumage technique, which appealed to painters looking for new ways to depict what was called the "unseen" or the "possible". The technique was once demonstrated in Matta's workshop, about which Steven Naifeh reports, "Once, when Matta was demonstrating the Surrealist technique [Paalen's] Fumage, Jackson [Pollock] turned to (Peter) Busa and said in a stage whisper: 'I can do that without the smoke.{{'"}}Steven Naifeh, p. 427. Pollock's painter friend Fritz Bultman even stated, "It was Wolfgang Paalen who started it all."Steven Naifeh, p. 534.

In 1950, Hans Namuth, a young photographer, wanted to take pictures—both stills and moving—of Pollock at work. Pollock promised to start a new painting especially for the photographic session, but when Namuth arrived, Pollock apologized and told him the painting was finished.

File:Namuth - Pollock.jpg extensively documented Pollock's unique painting techniques.]]

Namuth said that when he entered the studio:

{{blockquote|multiline=true

|text=A dripping wet canvas covered the entire floor ... There was complete silence ... Pollock looked at the painting. Then, unexpectedly, he picked up can and paint brush and started to move around the canvas. It was as if he suddenly realized the painting was not finished. His movements, slow at first, gradually became faster and more dance like as he flung black, white, and rust colored paint onto the canvas. He completely forgot that Lee and I were there; he did not seem to hear the click of the camera shutter ... My photography session lasted as long as he kept painting, perhaps half an hour. In all that time, Pollock did not stop. How could one keep up this level of activity? Finally, he said "This is it."

Pollock's finest paintings ... reveal that his all-over line does not give rise to positive or negative areas: we are not made to feel that one part of the canvas demands to be read as figure, whether abstract or representational, against another part of the canvas read as ground. There is not inside or outside to Pollock's line or the space through which it moves. ... Pollock has managed to free line not only from its function of representing objects in the world, but also from its task of describing or bounding shapes or figures, whether abstract or representational, on the surface of the canvas.

|source=Karmel, 132}}

Continuing to evade the viewer's search for figurative elements in his paintings, Pollock abandoned titles and started numbering his works. He said about this, "[L]ook passively and try to receive what the painting has to offer and not bring a subject matter or preconceived idea of what they are to be looking for." His wife said, "He used to give his pictures conventional titles ... but now he simply numbers them. Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a picture for what it is—pure painting."

Pollock's work has been the subject of important critical debates. Critic Robert Coates once derided a number of Pollock's works as "mere unorganized explosions of random energy, and therefore meaningless".[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/nyregion/05spotli.html Steven McElroy, "If It's So Easy, Why Don't You Try It"], The New York Times, December 3, 2010. Reynold's News, in a 1959 headline, said, "This is not art—it's a joke in bad taste." French abstract painter Jean Hélion, on the other hand, remarked on first seeing a Pollock, "It filled out space going on and on because it did not have a start or end to it."Gray Martin, Quote in Book One 'Breaking the Ice' of 'Jackson Pollock — Memories arrested in Space', Santa Monica Press, 2003, {{ISBN|1891661329}} Clement Greenberg supported Pollock's work on formalistic grounds. It fit well with Greenberg's view of art history as a progressive purification in form and elimination of historical content. He considered Pollock's work to be the best painting of its day and the culmination of the Western tradition via Cubism and Cézanne to Manet.

In a 1952 article in ARTnews, Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting" and wrote that "what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. The big moment came when it was decided to paint 'just to paint'. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation from value—political, aesthetic, moral." Many people{{who|date=August 2021}} assumed that he had modeled his "action painter" paradigm on Pollock.{{Cite web|last=MacAdam|first=Barbara A.|date=2007-11-01|title=Top Ten ARTnews Stories: 'Not a Picture but an Event'|url=https://www.artnews.com/artnews/news/top-ten-artnews-stories-not-a-picture-but-an-event-181/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}

The Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization to promote American culture and values, backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), sponsored exhibitions of Pollock's work. Some left-wing scholars, including Eva Cockcroft, have argued that the United States government and wealthy elite embraced Pollock and abstract expressionism to place the United States in the forefront of global art and devalue socialist realism.{{cite web |url=http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr229/molyneux.htm |title=Expression of an age |publisher=Pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk |access-date=August 30, 2009 |archive-date=February 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205061454/http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr229/molyneux.htm |url-status=dead }}Saunders, F. S. (2000), The Cultural Cold War. The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, New York: Free Press. Cockcroft wrote that Pollock became a "weapon of the Cold War".Eva Cockcroft, "Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War", Artforum, vol. 12, no. 10, June 1974, pp. 43–54.

Pollock described his art as "motion made visible memories, arrested in space".Text written by Pollock on the reverse of a photo of himself, taken in his studio, circa 1948/49

Pollock's staining into raw canvas was adapted by the Color Field painters Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. Frank Stella made "all-over composition" a hallmark of his works of the 1960s. Joseph Glasco was introduced to Pollock by Alfonso Ossorio in 1949.{{Cite book |last=Raeburn |first=Michael |title=Joseph Glasco: The Fifteenth American |publisher=Cacklegoose Press |year=2015 |isbn=9781611688542 |location=London |pages=62 |language=English}} Throughout his life, Glasco continued to reflect on Pollock’s artistic influence, particularly in the early to mid-1970s when his style changed to all-over collage paintings with their emphasis on rhythm and process.{{Cite book |last=Raeburn |first=Michael |title=Joseph Glasco: The Fifteenth American |publisher=Cacklegoose Press |year=2015 |isbn=9781611688542 |location=London |pages=55, multiple |language=English}} The Happenings artist Allan Kaprow, sculptors Richard Serra and Eva Hesse, and many contemporary artists have retained Pollock's emphasis on the process of creation; they were influenced by his approach to the process, rather than the look of his work.{{cite web|title=Jackson Pollock's Unique Style|url = http://www.jackson-pollock.com/uniquestyle.html}}

In 2004, One: Number 31, 1950 was ranked the eighth-most influential piece of modern art in a poll of 500 artists, curators, critics, and dealers.{{Cite web | url = https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/dec/02/arts.artsnews1 | title = Work of art that inspired a movement ... a urinal | last = Higgins | first = Charlotte | date = December 2, 2004 | work = The Guardian | access-date = July 20, 2014}}

In the early 1990s, three groups of movie makers were developing Pollock biographical projects, each based on a different source. The project that at first seemed most advanced was a joint venture between Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films and Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions (De Niro's parents were friends of Krasner and Pollock). The script, by Christopher Cleveland, was to be based on Jeffrey Potter's 1985 oral biography, To a Violent Grave, a collection of reminiscences by Pollock's friends. Streisand was to play the role of Lee Krasner, and De Niro was to portray Pollock. A second was to be based on Love Affair (1974), a memoir by Ruth Kligman, who was Pollock's lover in the six months before his death. This was to be directed by Harold Becker, with Al Pacino playing Pollock.Carol Strickland (July 25, 1993), [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/25/nyregion/race-is-on-to-portray-pollock.html "Race Is On to Portray Pollock"], The New York Times.

In 2000, the biographical film Pollock, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, directed by and starring Ed Harris, was released. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Lee Krasner. The movie was the project of Harris, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Harris himself painted the works seen in the film.[http://www.dvdtalk.com/interviews/actor_ed_harris.html Interview with Ed Harris] at DVDtalk The Pollock-Krasner Foundation did not authorize or collaborate with any production.

In September 2009, the art historian Henry Adams claimed in Smithsonian magazine that Pollock had written his name in his famous painting Mural (1943).[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Decoding-Jackson-Pollock.html smithsonianmag.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213033957/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Decoding-Jackson-Pollock.html |date=December 13, 2013 }}, Henry Adams, "Decoding Jackson Pollock", Smithsonian Magazine, September 2009. The painting is now insured for US$140 million. In 2011, the Republican Iowa State Representative Scott Raecker introduced a bill to force the sale of the artwork, held by the University of Iowa, to fund scholarships, but his bill created such controversy that it was quickly withdrawn.Michael Winter (February 9, 2011), [http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/02/iowa-lawmaker-proposes-selling-pollock-masterpiece-to-fund-scholarships/1 "Iowa lawmaker proposes selling Pollock masterpiece to fund scholarships"], USA Today.

One of Jackson Pollock's works is featured heavily in the film Ex Machina. A pivotal scene in the film contains a monologue where antagonist Nathan Bateman describes the central challenge of artificial intelligence as engineering a cognitive state that is "not deliberate, not random, but somewhere in between," which he likens to the cognitive state Pollock achieves while painting.

In 1973, Number 11, 1952 (also known as Blue Poles) was purchased by the Australian Gough Whitlam government for the National Gallery of Australia for US$2 million (A$1.3 million at the time of payment). This was the highest price ever paid for a modern painting and the painting is now one of the most popular exhibits.{{cite news |url= http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=general&story_id=528424&category=General&m=11&y=2006 |title= Our Poles world's top-priced painting? |date= November 4, 2006 |publisher= The Canberra Times |access-date= December 2, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071014054858/http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=general&story_id=528424&category=General&m=11&y=2006 |archive-date= October 14, 2007 |url-status= dead }} The artwork contains only a fleeting reference to the real world and Blue Poles has become the flagship of autonomous art.{{cite book | author1= Pam Meecham | author2= Julie Sheldon |title=Modern Art: A Critical Introduction |publisher= Taylor & Francis |year=2013 |page=14 |isbn=9781317972464 }} Blue Poles was a centerpiece of the Museum of Modern Art's 1998 retrospective in New York, the first time the painting had been shown in America since its purchase.

In November 2006, Pollock's No. 5, 1948 became the world's most expensive painting, when it was sold privately to an undisclosed buyer for the sum of US$140 million. Another artist record was established in 2004, when No. 12 (1949), a medium-sized drip painting that had been shown in the United States Pavilion at the 1950 Venice Biennale, fetched US$11.7 million at Christie's, New York.[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4288617 Jackson Pollock, No. 12 (1949)] Christie's New York, May 11, 2004. In 2012, Number 28, 1951, one of the artist's combinations of drip and brushwork in shades of silvery gray with red, yellow, and shots of blue and white, also sold at Christie's, New York, for US$20.5 million—US$23 million with fees—within its estimated range of US$20 million to US$30 million.Carol Vogel (May 8, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/arts/design/rothko-painting-sells-for-record-nearly-87-million-at-christies.html "Record Sales for a Rothko and Other Art at Christie's"], The New York Times.

In 2013, Pollock's Number 19 (1948) was sold by Christie's for a reported US$58,363,750 during an auction that ultimately reached US$495 million total sales in one night, which Christie's reports as a record to date as the most expensive auction of contemporary art.{{cite web |last=Vartanian |first=Hrag |title=Historic Night at Christie's as 12 Post-War Artists Set Records, Biggest Sale in History |url=http://hyperallergic.com/71179/record-night-at-christies-as-12-post-war-artists-set-auction-records/ |publisher=Hyperallergic |access-date=May 18, 2013|date=May 16, 2013 }}

In February 2016, Bloomberg News reported that Kenneth C. Griffin had purchased Jackson Pollock's 1948 painting Number 17A for US$200 million, from David Geffen."Billionaire drops $500M for 2 masterpieces", February 19, 2016, Bloomberg News, as republished by Fox News, at [https://www.foxnews.com/us/billionaire-drops-500m-for-2-masterpieces foxnews.com].

In 2023, an unknown Pollock painting was reportedly discovered in Bulgaria after international police agencies were able to track down a group of international art smugglers. The painting is reportedly worth up to 50 million euros.{{cite news |title=Unknown Jackson Pollock painting found in raid, say Bulgarian officials |date=22 March 2023 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/22/unknown-jackson-pollock-painting-found-in-raid-say-bulgarian-officials |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=22 March 2023}}

In 2024, Kasmin announced exclusive global representation of Jackson Pollock.{{Cite web |title=Announcing Exclusive Global Representation of Jackson Pollock |url=https://www.kasmingallery.com/news/239-announcing-exclusive-global-representation-of-jackson-pollock/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=Kasmin Gallery |language=en}} Kasmin has been representing Lee Krasner since 2016.{{Cite web |title=Pollock-Krasner Foundation Selects Paul Kasmin Gallery to Represent the Works of Lee Krasner – Pollock-Krasner Foundation |url=https://pkf.org/press_releases/pollock-krasner-foundation-selects-paul-kasmin-gallery-represent-works-lee-krasner/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2024-09-27 |title=Kasmin to represent Jackson Pollock's work worldwide, next to Lee Krasner |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/27/kasmin-represents-jackson-pollock-krasner-foundation |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}

The Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board was created by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1990 to evaluate newly found works for an upcoming supplement to the 1978 catalogue.Lesley M. M. Blume (September 2012), [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/09/jackson-pollock-ruth-kligman-love-triangle "The Canvas and the Triangle"], Vanity Fair. In the past, however, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation has declined to be involved in authentication cases.Randy Kennedy (May 29, 2005), [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/arts/design/29kenn.html "Is This a Real Jackson Pollock?"], The New York Times.

In 2006, a documentary, Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, was made concerning Teri Horton, a truck driver who bought an abstract painting for five dollars at a thrift store in California in 1992. This work may be a lost Pollock painting, but its authenticity is debated. Thomas Hoving is shown in the documentary and states that the painting is on a primed canvas, which Pollock never used.

Untitled 1950, which the New York–based Knoedler Gallery had sold in 2007 for $17 million to Pierre Lagrange, a London hedge-fund multimillionaire, was subject to an authenticity suit before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Done in the painter's classic drip-and-splash style and signed "J. Pollock", the modest-sized painting ({{Convert|15|x|28+1/2|in|cm}}) was found to contain yellow paint pigments not commercially available until about 1970.Michael Shnayerson (May 2012), [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/knoedler-gallery-forgery-scandal-investigation "A Question of Provenance"], Vanity Fair. The suit was settled in a confidential agreement in 2012.Patricia Cohen (October 21, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/arts/design/knoedler-made-huge-profits-on-fake-rothko-lawsuit-claims.html "Lawsuits Claim Knoedler Made Huge Profits on Fakes"], The New York Times.

In 1999, the physicist and artist Richard Taylor used computer analysis to show similarities between Pollock's painted patterns and fractals (patterns that recur on multiple size scales) found in natural scenery,{{cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Richard |last2=Micolich |first2=Adam |last3=Jonas |first3=David |title=Fractal analysis of Pollock's drip paintings |journal=Nature |year=1999 |volume=399 |issue=422 |pages=422 |doi=10.1038/20833 |bibcode=1999Natur.399..422T |s2cid=204993516 |doi-access=free }} reflecting Pollock's own words: "I am nature".{{cite magazine |last=Schjeldahl |first=Peter |date=July 23, 2006 |title=American Abstract |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/31/american-abstract |magazine=The New Yorker |location=New York City |publisher=Condé Nast |access-date=18 April 2022}} His research team labelled Pollock's style fractal expressionism.R.P. Taylor, "Order in Pollock's Chaos", Scientific American, vol. 287, 116–121 (2002)

In 2003, 24 Pollockesque paintings and drawings were found in a locker in Wainscott, New York. In 2005, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation requested a fractal analysis to be used for the first time in an authenticity dispute.J. Abbott, "In the Hands of a Master", Nature, vol. 439, 648–650 (2006).R.P. Taylor et al., "Authenticating Pollock Paintings Using Fractal Geometry", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 28, 695–702 (2005).J. Rehmeyer, "Fractal or Fake?", ScienceNews, vol. 171, 122–123, (2007)K. Jones-Smith et al., "Fractal Analysis: Revisiting Pollock's Paintings" Nature, Brief Communication Arising, vol. 444, E9-10, (2006).R.P. Taylor et al., "Fractal Analysis: Revisiting Pollock's Paintings". Nature, Brief Communication Arising, vol. 444, E10-11, (2006) Researchers at the University of Oregon used the technique to identify differences between the patterns in the six disputed paintings analyzed and those in 14 established Pollocks. Pigment analysis of the paintings by researchers at Harvard University showed the presence in one painting of a synthetic pigment that was not patented until the 1980s, and materials in two others that were not available in Pollock's lifetime.Custer, Lee Ann W. (January 31, 2007), [http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/1/31/pigment-could-undo-pollock-a-sophisticated/ "Pigment Could Undo Pollock"], The Harvard Crimson.{{cite news|last=McGuigan |first=Cathleen |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20216976/site/newsweek/ |title=Seeing Is Believing? Is this a real Jackson Pollock? A mysterious trove of pictures rocks the art world|work= Newsweek |date=August 20–27, 2007 |access-date=August 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817122703/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20216976/site/newsweek/ |archive-date=August 17, 2007 }}

In 2007, a traveling museum exhibition of the paintings was mounted and was accompanied by a comprehensive book, Pollock Matters, written by Ellen G. Landau, one of the four sitting scholars from the former Pollock Krasner Foundation authentication panel from the 1990s, and Claude Cernuschi, a scholar in Abstract Expressionism. In the book, Landau demonstrates the many connections between the family who owns the paintings and Jackson Pollock during his lifetime to place the paintings in what she believes to be their proper historic context. Landau also presents the forensic findings of Harvard University and presents possible explanations for the forensic inconsistencies that were found in three of the 24 paintings.Ellen G. Landau, Claude Cernuschi (2007). Pollock Matters. McMullen Museum of Art Boston College, published by the University of Chicago Press.Michael Miller (December 7, 2007). "Pollock Matters, The McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 1–December 9, 2007". The Berkshire Review, An International Journal for the Arts. However, the scientist who invented one of the modern pigments dismissed the possibility that Pollock used this paint as being "unlikely to the point of fantasy".{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Subsequently, over 10 scientific groups have performed fractal analysis on over 50 of Pollock's works.J.R. Mureika, C.C. Dyer, G.C. Cupchik, "Multifractal Structure in Nonrepresentational Art", Physical Review E, vol. 72, 046101-1-15 (2005).C. Redies, J. Hasenstein and J. Denzler, "Fractal-Like Image Statistics in Visual Art: Similar to Natural Scenes", Spatial Vision, vol. 21, 137–148 (2007).S. Lee, S. Olsen and B. Gooch, "Simulating and Analyzing Jackson Pollock's Paintings" Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, vol.1, 73–83 (2007).J. Alvarez-Ramirez, C. Ibarra-Valdez, E. Rodriguez and L. Dagdug, "1/f-Noise Structure in Pollock's Drip Paintings", Physica A, vol. 387, 281–295 (2008).D.J. Graham and D.J. Field, "Variations in Intensity for Representative and Abstract Art, and for Art from Eastern and Western Hemispheres", Perception, vol. 37, 1341–1352 (2008).J. Alvarez-Ramirez, J. C. Echeverria, E. Rodriguez "Performance of a High-Dimensional R/S Analysis Method for Hurst Exponent Estimation", Physica A, vol. 387, 6452–6462 (2008).J. Coddington, J. Elton, D. Rockmore and Y. Wang, "Multi-fractal Analysis and Authentication of Jackson Pollock Paintings", Proceedings SPIE, vol. 6810, 68100F 1-12 (2008).M. Al-Ayyoub, M. T. Irfan and D.G. Stork, "Boosting Multi-Feature Visual Texture Classifiers for the Authentification of Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings", SPIE proceedings on Computer Vision and Image Analysis of Art II, vol. 7869, 78690H (2009).J.R. Mureika and R.P. Taylor, "The Abstract Expressionists and Les Automatistes: multi-fractal depth", Signal Processing, vol. 93 573 (2013).L. Shamar, "What Makes a Pollock Pollock: A Machine Vision Approach", International Journal of Arts and Technology, vol. 8, 1–10, (2015). A 2015 study that used fractal analysis as one of its techniques achieved a 93% success rate distinguishing real from fake Pollocks.L. Shamar, "What Makes a Pollock Pollock: A Machine Vision Approach", International Journal of Arts and Technology, vol. 8, 1–10, (2015) Current research of Fractal Expressionism focuses on human response to viewing fractals. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that Pollock's fractals induce the same stress-reduction in observers as computer-generated fractals and naturally occurring fractals.R.P. Taylor, B. Spehar, P. Van Donkelaar and C.M. Hagerhall, "Perceptual and Physiological Responses to Jackson Pollock's Fractals", Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 5 1–13 (2011)R.P. Taylor et al., in Fractal Geometry of the Brain, Springer, 2016

File:Pollock-Krasner House studio floor.jpg, the visual result of being his primary painting surface from 1946 until 1953]]

Lee Krasner donated Pollock's papers to the Archives of American Art in 1983. They were later archived with her own papers. The Archives of American Art also houses the Charles Pollock papers, which include correspondence, photographs, and other files relating to his brother Jackson.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

A separate organization, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, was established in 1985. The foundation functions as the official estate for both Pollock and his widow, but also under the terms of Krasner's will, serves "to assist individual working artists of merit with financial need".{{cite web |url=http://www.pkf.org/press.html |title=The Pollock-Krasner Foundation website: Press Release page |publisher=Pkf.org |access-date=August 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611094930/http://www.pkf.org/press.html |archive-date=June 11, 2015 }} The U.S. copyright representative for the Pollock-Krasner Foundation is the Artists Rights Society.{{cite web|url=http://arsny.com/requested.html |title=Most frequently requested artists list of the Artists Rights Society |publisher=Arsny.com |access-date=August 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206001342/http://www.arsny.com/requested.html |archive-date=February 6, 2015 }}

The Pollock-Krasner House and Studio is owned and administered by the Stony Brook Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of Stony Brook University. Regular tours of the house and studio occur from May through October.{{Cite web |title=Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY |url=https://www.pkhouse.org/ |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=PK House |language=en}}

{{Clear|right}}

{{Div col|colwidth=40em}}

• 1942: Male and Female Philadelphia Museum of Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.male-female.jpg|title = Male and Female|publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1942: Stenographic Figure Museum of Modern Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.stenographic.jpg|title = Stenographic Figure|publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1942: The Moon Woman Peggy Guggenheim Collection{{cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/3473|title=Collection Online|work=guggenheim.org|date=January 1942}}
• 1943: Mural University of Iowa Museum of Art,{{cite web|url=http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/uima,22871 |title=UIMA: Mural |publisher=Uiowa.edu |access-date=August 30, 2009}} given by Peggy Guggenheim{{cite web |author=University of Iowa Museum of Art |url=http://uima.uiowa.edu/pollock-s-mural-moves-to-the-getty-for-a-makeover/ |title=Pollock's "Mural" Moves to the Getty for a Makeover! |publisher=UIMA |date=July 1, 2012 |access-date=March 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312191448/http://uima.uiowa.edu/pollock-s-mural-moves-to-the-getty-for-a-makeover/ |archive-date=March 12, 2013 }}
• 1943: The She-Wolf Museum of Modern Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.she-wolf.jpg|title = The She-Wolf|publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1943: Pasiphaë Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite web |title=Pasiphaë |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/482518 |website=metmuseum.org |access-date=7 April 2025}}
• 1943: Guardians of the Secret San Francisco Museum of Modern Art{{cite web |title=Guardians of the Secret |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/45.1308/ |website=sfmoma.org |access-date=7 April 2025}}
• 1943: Blue (Moby Dick) Ohara Museum of Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.moby-dick.jpg|title = Blue (Moby Dick) |publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1945: Night Mist Norton Museum of Art{{cite web|url = https://www.norton.org/about/history|title = Norton Museum of Art | History}}
• 1945: Troubled Queen Museum of Fine Arts, Boston{{cite web|url = http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=34645&coll_keywords=Pollock&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=1&coll_sort_order=1&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1|title = Troubled Queen |publisher = mfa.org |url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310142338/http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=34645&coll_keywords=Pollock&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=1&coll_sort_order=1&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1|archive-date = March 10, 2007}}
• 1946: Eyes in the Heat Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice{{cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/3481|title=Collection Online|work=guggenheim.org|date=January 1946}}
• 1946: The Key Art Institute of Chicago{{cite web |url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.key.jpg|title = The Key |publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1946: The Tea Cup Collection Frieder Burda{{cite web |url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.tea-cup.jpg|title = The Tea Cup|publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1946: Shimmering Substance, from The Sounds In The Grass Museum of Modern Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.shimmering.jpg|title = Shimmering Substance|publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1946: Free Form , MoMA
• 1947: Portrait of H.M. University of Iowa Museum of Art, given by Peggy Guggenheim.{{cite web|url = http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/u?/uima,18698|title = Portrait of H.M.|publisher = digital.lib.uiowa.edu}}
• 1947: Full Fathom Five Museum of Modern Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/fathom-five/pollock.fathom-five.jpg|title = Full Fathom Five|publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1947: Cathedral Dallas Museum of Art{{cite web|url=http://www.beatmuseum.org/pollock/cathedral.html |title=Jackson Pollock - Painting - Cathedral |publisher=Beatmuseum.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207234940/http://www.beatmuseum.org/pollock/cathedral.html |access-date=February 7, 2005|archive-date=February 7, 2005 }}
• 1947: Enchanted Forest Peggy Guggenheim Collection{{cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/3483|title=Collection Online|work=guggenheim.org|date=January 1947}}
• 1947: Lucifer The Anderson Collection at Stanford University{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/MNCM1JT9SS.DTL |title=Anderson Gallery a major art donation to Stanford |author=Baker, Kenneth |date=June 14, 2011 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=June 14, 2011}}
• 1947: Sea Change Seattle Art Museum, given by Peggy Guggenheim{{cite web |url=http://art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/2742/sea-change?ctx=7ffc75c2-a597-4f90-96fd-b0fb5d07487b&idx=35 | title=Online Collection |publisher = art.seattleartmuseum.org/}}
• 1948: Painting{{cite web|url = http://www.centrepompidou.fr/images/oeuvres/XL/3I01535.jpg|title = Painting|publisher = centrepompidou.fr|format = jpeg|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060318102627/http://www.centrepompidou.fr/images/oeuvres/XL/3I01535.jpg|archive-date = March 18, 2006}}
• 1948: Number 5 ({{Convert|8|x|4|ft|m}}) Private collection
• 1948: Number 8 Neuburger Museum at the State University of New York at Purchase
• 1948: Number 13A: Arabesque Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
• 1948: Composition (White, Black, Blue and Red on White) New Orleans Museum of Art{{cite web|url = http://www.noma.org/educationguides/Pollock.pdf|title = New Orleans Museum of Art Educational Guide|publisher = noma.org|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100703043548/http://www.noma.org/educationguides/Pollock.pdf|archive-date = July 3, 2010}}
• 1948: Summertime: Number 9A Tate Modern{{Cite web |last=Tate |title='Summertime: Number 9A', Jackson Pollock, 1948 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pollock-summertime-number-9a-t03977 |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}
• 1948: Number 19{{cite web |agency=Agence France-Presse |title=Jackson Pollock work "Number 19, 1948" sells for record $58.4 million at Christie's More Information (Copyright © artdaily.org) |url=http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62609|publisher=Artdaily.org|access-date=May 18, 2013}}
• 1949: Number 1 Glenstone Museum{{cite web|url = https://www.glenstone.org/artist/jackson-pollock/ | title=Jackson Pollock }}
• 1949: Number 3 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
• 1949: Number 10 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston{{cite web|url = http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=34114&coll_keywords=Pollock&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=1&coll_sort_order=1&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1|title = Number 10|publisher = mfa.org|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070319165448/http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=34114&coll_keywords=Pollock&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=1&coll_sort_order=1&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1|archive-date = March 19, 2007}}
• 1949: Number 11 Indiana University Art Museum Bloomington, Indiana{{cite web|url =http://www.indiana.edu/~iuam/online_modules/learning_to_look/art1-3.htm |title=Indiana University Art Museum Learning to Look educational web module}}
• 1950: Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) National Gallery of Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/lavender-mist/pollock.lavender-mist.jpg|title = Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)|publisher = ibiblio.org|format = jpeg}}
• 1950: Mural on Indian red ground, 1950 Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art{{cite web|url = http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/l164.html|title = Mural on indian red ground, 1950|publisher = artcyclopedia.com|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://archive.today/20120718113952/http://www.artcyclopedia.com/masterscans/l164.html|archive-date = July 18, 2012}}
• 1950: Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=21&viewmode=0&item=57.92 |title=Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) |publisher= The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |access-date=August 30, 2009}}
• 1950: Number 29, 1950 National Gallery of Canada{{cite web |url=http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artist_e.jsp?iartistid=4391 |title=Artist Page: Jackson Pollock |publisher=Cybermuse.gallery.ca |access-date=August 30, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505005140/http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artist_e.jsp?iartistid=4391 |archive-date=May 5, 2009 |url-status=dead }}
• 1950: Number 32, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, BRD{{cite web|url=http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/pollock/pollock_32_1950.jpg.html|title=Jackson Pollock: Number 32, 1950|work=artchive.com}}
• 1950: One: Number 31, 1950 Museum of Modern Art{{cite web|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=78386 |title= One: Number 31, 1950|publisher=MoMA |access-date=August 30, 2009}}[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/arts/design/jackson-pollocks-one-number-31-1950-restored-by-moma.html A Pollock Restored, a Mystery Revealed] May 27, 2013 NYT
• 1951: Number 7 National Gallery of Art{{cite web |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.62619.html |title=Number 7, 1951 - Image |publisher=Nga.gov |access-date=September 22, 2020}}
• 1951: Black and White (Number 6) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• 1952: Convergence Albright-Knox Art Gallery{{cite web|url = http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/art/K1956_7.jpg|title = Convergence|publisher = albrightknox.org|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061115224424/http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/art/K1956_7.jpg|archive-date = November 15, 2006}}
• 1952: Blue Poles: No. 11, 1952 National Gallery of Australia{{cite web|url=http://nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=36334&ViewID=2&GalID=1 |title= Blue poles |publisher=Nga.gov.au |access-date=August 30, 2009}}
• 1952: Number 12, 1952 Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection{{cite web |title=Empire State Plaza Art Collection |url=https://empirestateplaza.ny.gov/art}}
• 1953: Portrait and a Dream Dallas Museum of Art{{cite news|url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/portrait/story/0,,991689,00.html |title=Portrait and a Dream|work= The Guardian |date=July 5, 2003|access-date=August 30, 2009| location=London |first=Jonathan |last=Jones}}
• 1953: Easter and the Totem The Museum of Modern Art{{cite web|url = http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/pollock.easter-totem.jpg |title = Easter and the Totem |publisher = ibiblio.org |format = jpeg}}
• 1953: Ocean Greyness Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum{{cite web|url = http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/3486 |title=Ocean Greyness |publisher=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: Collection Online|date=January 1953 }}
• 1953: The Deep Centre Georges Pompidou{{cite web|url=http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/jackson-pollock/the-deep-1953|title=The Deep - Jackson Pollock - WikiArt.org|author=Jackson Pollock|work=wikipaintings.org}}{{cite web|url=http://www.artchive.com/artchive/P/pollock/pollock_the_deep.jpg.html |title=Jackson Pollock: The Deep |work=artchive.com}}

{{Div col end}}

{{Reflist}}

• {{Cite book |editor1-last=Karmel |editor1-first=Pepe |editor2-last=Varnedoe |editor2-first=Kirk |editor2-link=Kirk Varnedoe |year=1999 |title=Jackson Pollock: Key Interviews, Articles and Reviews |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |isbn=978-0-87070-037-8}}

{{Refbegin}}

• {{Cite book |last=Herskovic |first=Marika |oclc=50666793 |title=New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists |publisher=New York School Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-9677994-0-7 |pages=18; 38; 278–281}}
• {{Cite book |last=Herskovic |first=Marika |oclc=50253062 |title=American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey |publisher=New York School Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-9677994-1-4 |pages=262–265}}
• {{Cite book |last=Herskovic |first=Marika |oclc=298188260 |title=American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless An Illustrated Survey With Artists' Statements, Artwork and Biographies |publisher=New York School Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-9677994-2-1 |pages=127; 196–199}}
• {{Cite book |last1=O'Connor |first1=Francis V. |author1-link=Francis V. O'Connor |year=1967 |title=Jackson Pollock [exhibition catalogue] |url=https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1724_300299011.pdf?_ga=2.127186573.1032885861.1665116860-30906693.1664682350 |location=New York |publisher=Museum of Modern Art |oclc=165852}}
• {{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=February 15, 2002 |title=Art in Review |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/arts/art-in-review-janet-sobel.html |work=The New York Times}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Taylor |first1=Richard |last2=Micolich |first2=Adam |last3=Jonas |first3=David |title=Fractal Expressionism |journal=Physics World |volume=12 |issue=10 |pages=25–28 |date=October 1999 |url=http://phys.unsw.edu.au/phys_about/PHYSICS!/FRACTAL_EXPRESSIONISM/fractal_taylor.html |access-date=September 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805084052/http://phys.unsw.edu.au/phys_about/PHYSICS!/FRACTAL_EXPRESSIONISM/fractal_taylor.html |archive-date=August 5, 2012 |url-status=dead |doi=10.1088/2058-7058/12/10/21 |url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite book |last1=Varnedoe |first1=Kirk |author1-link=Kirk Varnedoe |last2=Karmel |first2=Pepe |title=Jackson Pollock: Essays, Chronology, and Bibliography. Exhibition catalog |location=New York |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-87070-069-9}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070609154221/http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/arthumanities/mov/arthum_pollock_studio.mov mcah.columbia.edu]—Media Center for Art History, Columbia University

{{Refend}}

{{Commons category}}

{{Wikiquote}}

• [http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibitions/memories-arrested Exhibition-'Memories Arrested' 2012]
• [http://stonybrook.edu/pkhouse Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center]
• [http://www.pkf.org Pollock-Krasner Foundation]

• [http://www.lawforart.com/pollock.html Pollock and The Law]
• [http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/index.htm National Gallery of Art web feature, includes highlights of Pollock's career, numerous examples of his work, photographs and motion footage of Pollock, plus an in-depth discussion of his 1950 painting Lavender Mist]
• [http://www.nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=36334&MnuID=2&GalID=1 Blue Poles] at the NGA
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051224171704/http://materialscience.uoregon.edu/taylor/art/info.html#Recent_Publications Fractal Expressionism] – the fractal qualities of Pollock's drip paintings.
• [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/polljack.htm Jackson Pollock Papers at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art]
• [http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/197/2019 "Jackson Pollock, John Cage and William Burroughs"], talk at MOMA
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120224235300/http://life.time.com/culture/jackson-pollock-rare-unpublished/#1 pictures of Pollock], slideshow Life magazine
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20230307144036/https://wikilivres.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock Works by Jackson Pollock] (public domain in Canada)

; Museum links

• {{MoMA artist|4675}}
• [https://guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/jackson-pollock The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation]
• [https://collections.lacma.org/node/164912 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California]
• [https://www.moca.org/artist/jackson-pollock Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California]
• [http://www.imj.org.il/imagine/collections/results.asp?searchType=simple&words=Pollock%2C+Jackson&ArtistE=on&Submit2=Search Jackson Pollock] at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

{{Jackson Pollock}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pollock, Jackson}}

Category:1912 births

Category:1956 deaths

Category:20th-century American painters

Category:Abstract expressionist artists

Category:Alcohol-related deaths in New York (state)

Category:American abstract painters

Category:American contemporary painters

Category:American male painters

Category:American people of Irish descent

Category:American people of Scotch-Irish descent

Category:American people of Scottish descent

Category:Art Students League of New York alumni

Category:Artists from Wyoming

Category:Burials at Green River Cemetery

Category:Federal Art Project artists

Category:Painters from California

Category:Painters from New York City

Category:People from Chico, California

Category:People from Cody, Wyoming

Category:People from Echo Park, Los Angeles

Category:People from Springs, New York

Category:Road incident deaths in New York (state)

Category:Sibling artists