Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) was the founder of the Abstract Expressionist Movement in art. This was the first truly American artform and its development had worldwide repercussions. Whereas up to the ...

Jackson Pollock's "Untitled" (c.1944-45) is a drypoint and engraving in black on white wove paper. Inscribed "2nd proof 1967" among other things. (all images via Swann) Tomorrow, Swann auction house ...

Introduction : internationalism and abstract expressionism / Joan Marter -- The birth of abstract expressionism / Helen A. Harrison -- Implications of nationalism for abstract expressionism / Dore ...

In 1942, when Jackson Pollock was still an emerging artist, he displayed some of his work at a group exhibition in New York City. One of the other painters in the show, fellow Abstract Expressionist ...

With the banner title of "Synergy: Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollock, 1950-1951," the Federal Reserve Board has billed its latest exhibition as an abstract expressionist doubleheader. No such luck.

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York City. One was technical: Any two founding members could block a new applicant ...

"[Jackson] Pollock would often begin with some sort of figurative device to which he would then respond—and eventually bury under layers of paint," says Sue Taylor, an art historian at Portland State ...

Years before Jackson Pollock was immortalized in the pages of Life magazine—cigarette dangling from his mouth, flinging paint across a canvas on his studio floor—Janet Sobel created her own unique ...

Jackson Pollock and John Cage are legends in American history. In the centennial year of both artists’ births, two exhibitions now on view in New York celebrate their work and underline the fact that ...

The Audiophiliac visits Jackson Pollock's house and discovers the abstract expressionist painter had a decent hi-fi. The Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center.Steve Guttenberg I visited the ...

Betty Parsons, who showed the “great big shots” in her gallery starting in the 1940s, is the focus of a survey at Bard College, designed by the artist Amy Sillman. By Deborah Solomon A “drip” painting ...