That was the direct, provocative question asked in an August 1949 LIFE magazine article that helped cement Jackson Pollock’s reputation. It was a question Pollock spent much of the rest of his ...

Paul Jackson Pollock was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, one of five sons. The family bounced around the Southwest trying to eke out a living. Still, Pollock's mother encouraged his early interest ...

If he were alive today, Jackson Pollock ... shingle style of the home occupied by Pollock and his artist wife, Lee Krasner, in the last years of his life. Rather, just click on the very cheeky ...

Pollock's reputation rises turbulently and quickly, as evidenced by a Life magazine headline in 1949 that readd: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" Despite the ...

I was standing on two of Jackson ... troubadors and close to where Pollock and the other impoverished "action painters" lived, worked and played, in their early Manhattan years.

Naifeh and Smith won the Pulitzer Prize in biography for “Jackson Pollock: An American Saga ... to keep painting when early teachers disparaged his work,” Michiko Kakutani wrote in the ...

“Jackson Pollock: The Early Years” is currently on display at the Picasso Museum in Paris. Featuring about 100 artworks, the show focuses on the period between 1938 (when Pollock started ...

When sales are made from the foundation’s holdings, the proceeds are used to bolster its endowment, which currently totals $91m and “turns into life ... of Jackson Pollock: The Early Years ...