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Date
Artist
Jackson Pollock, American, b. Cody, Wyoming, 1912–1956
Provenance
Art of this Century, New York
Passedoit Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Connecticut
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale No. 1730, 6 February 1957, no. 53, p. 19
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 6 February 1957-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Exhibition History
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York (organizer). "Jackson Pollock: Drawing
into Painting," no. 24. TOUR: OXFORD MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, England, 31 March-13 May 1979; KUNSTHALLE DUSSELDORF, Germany, June-mid July; GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, Lisbon, 6 August-mid September; MUSEE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, 4 October-18 November; STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam, December-mid January 1980.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERVICES, Washington,
DC (organizer). "Aspects of Color: Works on Paper from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," no. 20. TOUR: MUHLENBERG COLLEGE, CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 28 May-28 August 1983; CHRYSLER MUSEUM, Norfolk, Virginia, 17 September-17 October; MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST, Midland, Texas, 12 November-12 February 1984; NEWCOMB COLLEGE, TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, 3 March-8 April; TELFAIR ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Savannah, Georgia, 28 April-3 June; MONTERREY PENINSULA MUSEUM OF ART, Monterrey, California, 23 June-29 July; LAGUNA BEACH MUSEUM OF ART, Laguna Beach, California, 18 August-23 September; LOWE ART MUSEUM, Coral Gables, Florida, 13 October-18 November; LAUREN ROGERS LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF ART, Laurel, Mississippi, 8 December-13 January 1985; OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF ART, Oklahoma City, 2 February-9 March; ALEXANDRIA MUSEUM, Alexandria, Louisiana, 29 March-4 May.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York. "Jackson Pollock: A Retrospective," 1
November 1998-2 February 1999, no. 103, p. 208. TOUR: TATE GALLERY, London, 11 March-6 June.
DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM, Berlin. "No Limits, Just Edge, Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper," 28 January-17 April 2005. TOUR: PEGGY GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION, Venice, 4 June 2005-18 September.
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, Washington, D.C. "Angels, Demons, Savages: Pollock-Ossorio-Dubuffet," 9 February-12 May 2013.
Published References
JOHNSON, UNA E. 20th Century Drawings, Part II: 1940 to the Present (New York:
Shorewood, 1964) p. 100, pl. 68.
O'CONNOR, FRANCIS VALENTINE and EUGENE VICTOR THAW. Jackson
Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works Vol. 4 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978) no. 993.
MARCHESSEAU, DANIEL. "Jackson Pollock," L'Oeil no. 291 (October 1979), p. 59.
FINCH, CHRISTOPHER. American Watercolors (New York: Abbeville, 1986) fig. 338,
p. 262.
FINCH, CHRISTOPHER. Twentieth Century Watercolors (New York: Abbeville, 1988)
fig. 310, p. 252.
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School
Abstract Expressionism (First Generation)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.4086
Type
Painting
Medium
Watercolor, ink, and opaque paint on paper
Dimensions
irreg.: 22 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (57.1 x 39.4 cm)