Attributed to Jackson Pollock, it does not have a COA. Medium: Oil board Nature. Provenance: private owner. 34 x 24 inches.

Biography: Jackson Pollock was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming to Scotch-Irish parents; he was the youngest of five brothers. He was raised in Arizona and California; his father tried his hand at ranching, farming and inn-keeping all around the West. Jackson worked as a farmhand, milking cows, plowing and cutting alfalfa. Around 1925 his father was employed as a surveyor, and Jackson helped his father with a job on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. The family moved to Riverside, California, and Jackson enrolled at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles.When he was eighteen years old, he moved to New York City to study with Thomas Hart Benton. His brother, Charles, and later Sanford both studied painting in the same period and the three shared menial jobs to support themselves. Jackson's term with Benton was not very successful; Benton considered him to be unexceptional.In 1940 Pollock came to the attention of a New York gallery who invited him and two other painters to exhibit. One of the painters was Willem de Kooning, the other was Lee Krasner who became Pollock's most enthusiastic booster and eventually his wife.Pollock, together with Robert Motherwell, first experimented with tearing and clipping paper in 1943 when Peggy Guggenheim invited them to participate in a collage exhibition at her newly opened "Art of This Century" Gallery. Although the show led to a contract with the gallery and his first one-man exhibition, Pollock only sporadically returned to the medium. After their 1943 collaboration, Motherwell had remarked on Pollock's intense concentration and his enjoyment in savagely clipping and searing paper as they progressed. Peggy Guggenheim gave him a show, a mural commission and a stipend of $150 a month for four years.Lee and Jackson bought a dilapidated house in The Springs on Long Island, and Jackson threw himself into restoring the house. Unable to afford a car, they rode bicycles everywhere. Pollock's best teacher was his wife. In the late 1940's she suspended her career as painter to look after Jackson's career, to teach him to present himself properly in the prominent place he was already assuming in the galleries.

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