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Jackson Pollock
American artist Jackson Pollock dribbling sand on a painting while working in his studio in East Hampton, New York.
In the fall of 1930, Jackson Pollock moved to New York City and enrolled at the Art Students League. There, he studied life drawing, painting, and composition under the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton for two and one-half years before leaving the institution in early 1933.1