PaulJackson Pollock was born January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming. He grew up in Arizona and California and in 1928 began to study painting at the Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles. In the fall of 1930 Pollock he moved to New York and studied at the Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton, who encouraged him throughout the
JacksonPollock, cigarette in mouth, drops paint onto canvas. Pollock would pour the paint on a canvas he positioned across the floor. It’s been referred to as the “drip technique,” but the
32Q 1200 Mid-Century Abstraction I (Painterly Abstraction), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 09/30/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/06/2016 - 01/01/2050. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 11/20/2015 - 03/20/2016. No. 2 exemplifies the mature paintings Pollock produced . 139 200 25 256 290 496 84 116