Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) is an American icon. Creator of rhythmic and energetic "action painting," he is internationally hailed as a leading figure in Abstract Expressionism. Born in Wyoming and ...

The critic Clement Greenberg, Pollock's principal champion, said he took one look at the painting and realized that "Jackson was the greatest painter this country has produced." A Museum of Modern ...

Artist Jackson Pollock did include ... Co-author Jon Gates, a longtime Pollock aficionado, however, says: “Seeing an image ...

In the eleven years since he was killed in a car crack-up at the age of 44, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock ... some 1,500% (a major drip painting by Pollock now brings upwards of $100,000).

“If it hadn’t been for Lee Krasner, Jackson would not have been the power he was.” There was a time when Pollock was a nobody and Krasner was the one to watch – an artist who, in the 1930s ...