Jackson Pollock: References & Edit History
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Biographies include Francis V. O’Connor, Jackson Pollock (1967); B.H. Friedman, Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible (1972, reissued 1995); Jeffrey Potter (compiler), To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock (1985, reprinted 1987); Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock: A Biography (1987, reissued 2001); and Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (1989, reissued 1992).
Francis V. O’Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw (eds.), Jackson Pollock, 4 vol. (1978), is a catalogue raisonné; a supplement to this catalog, edited by O’Connor, was published by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1995. Bernice Rose, Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper (1969), is a study of the drawings and small paintings. C.L. Wysuph, Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings (1970), reproduces the drawings Pollock gave to his first Jungian analyst.
Interpretative monographs include Frank O’Hara, Jackson Pollock (1959); Bryan Robertson, Jackson Pollock (1960); Hans Namuth, Pollock Painting, ed. by Barbara Rose (1980); Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983), which also reviews previous literature on the artist; Ellen G. Landau, Jackson Pollock (1989, reissued 2000); and Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel, Jackson Pollock (1998), which was written in conjunction with a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
An excellent short color film of Pollock in the act of painting, Jackson Pollock (1951), was produced by Paul Falkenberg and Hans Namuth, with music by Morton Feldman and narration by the artist.
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Article History
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| Anniversary information added. | Jan 24, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CBC Radio - Jackson Pollock was a master of physics as well as art, new study suggests. | Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC Listen - The painting that changed Australia the story of Blue Poles. | Dec 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - Biography of Jackson Pollock. | Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 07, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Washington University in St. Louis - Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum - Jackson Pollock, Sleeping Effort, 1953. | Oct 25, 2024 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Ohio State University - AAEP 1600 - Jackson Pollock. | May 08, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Dec 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Jackson Pollock � A Look at the Famous Master of the Drip Painting. | Oct 18, 2023 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Apr 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Smart History - Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm. | Mar 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jackson Pollock. | Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 04, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 05, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Artnet - Biography of Jackson Pollock. | Jun 14, 2019 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Dec 27, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Action Painting. | Aug 20, 2015 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | May 15, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Jackson Pollock. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Guggenheim - Biography of Jackson Pollock. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Art at The Phillips Collection - Biography of Jackson Pollock. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: TATE - Biography of Jackson Pollock. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Iowa Museum of Art - Biography of Jackson Pollock. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: How Stuff Works - Entertainment - How Jackson Pollock Worked. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art UK - Biography of Jackson Pollock. | Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Deleted photograph. | Aug 31, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 28, 2003 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |