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Which high school did Jackson Pollock attend in Los Angeles?
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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.
Jackson Pollock attended Manual Arts High School after moving to Los Angeles in 1928.1
While at the school, he was influenced by the painter and illustrator Frederick John de St. Vrain Schwankovsky, who provided him with early training in drawing and introduced him to European modern art and theosophical literature.1