Jackson Pollock, American, b. Cody, Wyoming, 1912–1956 Search this
Medium:
Ink on colored paper mounted on paperboard
Dimensions:
11 1/2 × 12 5/8 in. (29.2 × 32.1 cm) on artist's mount: 12 13/16 × 15 3/16 in. (32.5 × 38.6 cm)
Type:
Drawing
Date:
1943
Provenance:
Howard Putzel **
James Daniels (supposedly acquired from the artist)
Harold Diamond, New York, to 15 October 1961
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 15 October 1961-17 May 1966
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
** Source: O'Connor/Thaw Catalogue Raisonne
The drawing was reproduced on a Christmas card by Howard Putzel in c. 1944.
Exhibition History:
JUSTER GALLERY, New York. "American Watercolors and Drawings from 1900," 23 April-12 May 1962, no. 53.
WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS, Washington, DC. "The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism," 14 September-9 December 1989, fig. 9, cat. no. 68, p. 29, 31. TOUR: STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM, New York, 16 September-30 December 1990.
MUSEO DI ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA DI TRENTO E ROVERETO, Italy. "Il Secolo del Jazz: Arte, Cinema, Musica e Fotografia da Picasso a Basquiat," 15 November 2008-15 February 2009, color ill. p. 226. TOUR: MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY, Paris, 17 March-28 June; CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORANIA DE BARCELONA, 21 July-18 October. [Bacelona Venue only]
Published References:
O'CONNOR, FRANCIS VALENTINE and EUGENE VICTOR THAW. Jackson
Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works Vol. 3 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978) no. 666.
POWELL, RICHARD J. The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (Washington D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989) fig. 9, p. 29, 31.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
