Authors: Deborah Solomon
93 | “extremely unverbal”: Joseph L. Henderson, “Jackson Pollock: A Psychological Commentary,” |
94 | “give and receive feeling”: quoted in C. L. Wysuph, |
95 | “Christ, what a brutal . . . painting”: letter from Sanford Pollock to Charles Pollock, |
96 | “heavy-handed and banal”: Lawrence Alloway, “Art,” |
97 | “Jack is going very good work”: letter from Sanford Pollock to Charles Pollock, n.d., |
98 | “A winter of ups and downs”: letter from Sanford Pollock to Charles Pollock, May 1940. |
98 | “The effect of this loss”: Henderson, “Jackson Pollock: A Psychological Commentary,” |
98 | detoxification room at Bellevue Hospital: unpublished interview |
99 | “He broke a window”: interview with Manuel Tolegian, 1983. |
99 | “haven’t much to say”: letter from JP to Charles Pollock, n.d., |
99 | fall of 1940: The date of Pollock’s meeting with Graham remains disputed among art |
100 | “Of course he did”: quoted in James T. Valliere, “De Kooning on Pollock,” |
101 | “I brought culture”: John Graham, |
101 | “walk into any junk shop”: Thomas Hess, Graham obituary, |
101 | “We want bread!”: quoted in Hayden Herrera, “John Graham: Modernist Turns Magus,” |
101 | “couldn’t stop talking”: inteview with Constance Graham Garner, July 1984. |
101 | “Let Paris come see me”: ibid. |
102 | “Artists shouldn’t look”: ibid. |
102 | “always an Indian around”: Sandy McCoy to Shorthall. |
102 | “plastic qualities of American Indian”: interview with JP, |
103 | Alaskan Eskimo mask: Irving Sandler was the first to point out the connection between |
104 | “The irony is”: Sanford Pollock to Charles Pollock, Oct. 22, 1940, |
104 | “great doubt about himself”: quoted in Jeffrey Potter, |
104 | “I have found Pollock”: letter from Dr. De Laszlo to the Examining Medical Office, |
105 | “this god damned war”: letter from JP to Charles Pollock, postmarked April 14, 1944, |
105 | “all thru the war”: letter from JP to Louis Bunce (who was a friend from the Art Students |
105 | “extremely trying”: letter from Sande Pollock to Charles Pollock, July 1941, |
106 | “hate like hell”: Sande Pollock to Charles Pollock, Aug. 22, 1941. |
106 | “a damn good woman painter”: Arloie McCoy interview. |
107 | “I prided myself”: John Gruen, |
108 | “I’m Lee Krasner”: interviews by Francine du Plessix and Cleve Gray, “Who Was Jackson |
108 | “He stepped all over my feet”: Barbara Rose movie, |
108 | “I flipped my lid”: Gruen, |
108 | “Let’s go”: Amei Wallach, “Lee Krasner: Out of Jackson Pollock’s Shadow,” |
108 | “reading Jung”: unpublished interview with LK by Dorothy Seckler, for the Archives |
109 | “like tree trunks”: William Phillips, |
109 | “terribly drawn to Jackson”: Gruen, |
110 | working as a customs clerk: interview with Clement Greenberg, Dec. 1983. |
110 | “born on a cold day”: interview with Ruth Stein (the artist’s sister), March 1984. |
111 | “to draw clothed women figures”: ibid. |
112 | “I’d sit close to him”: Eleanor Munro, |
112 | “always a brother”: records of the National Academy of Design, New York City. |
113 | “This is so good”: Barbara Rose, |
113 | “Who is this?” LK to Seckler. |
114 | “I’m Igor Pantuhoff”: interview with May Natalie Tabak Rosenberg, the critic’s wife, |
114 | “Dear Lenore”: John Graham to LK, Nov. 12, 1941. |
115 | “general whirling figures”: J.W.L., “Mélange,” |
115 | “strange”: |
115 | “the Americans looked very good”: quoted in James T. Valliere, “De Kooning on Pollock,” |
115 | “have to sign your paintings”: Barbara Rose, “Lee Krasner,” a lecture given at the |
116 | “a human being in anguish”: interview with Fritz Bultman, 1984. |
116 | “a guy in overalls”: Rosenberg interview. |
116 | “They’re all so dense”: LK to Du Plessix and Gray, p. 51. |
116 | “You are very talented”: Ellen G. Landau, “Lee Krasner’s Early Career, Part Two: The |
116 | “I |
117 | “highly protective”: interview with Peter Busa, 1984. |
117 | “Tuesday night”: letter from Stella Pollock to Charles Pollock and others, May 5, |
118 | she felt disenchanted: LK to Seckler, and Landau, “Lee Krasner’s Early Career,” |
121 | “le petit philosophe”: |
121 | “deeply depressed man”: “Jackson Pollock: An Artists’ Symposium, Part I,” |
121 | “uncontrollable neuroses”: Jeffrey Potter, |
122 | the movement was essentially defunct: see Lionel Abel, |
122 | lonely and depressing: Anna Balakian, |
123 | “they were absolutely ignorant”: Calvin Tompkins, with the editors of Time-Life Books, |
123 | “fermé”: |
123 | “a fox in a hole”: interview with Peter Busa, July 1984. |
124 | “The reason”: ibid. |
124 | “sort of nonsense”: Potter, |
126 | pigment is splashed freely: Robert Hobbs pointed out that there are drips in |
126 | “bisexuality or sexual unsureness”: William Rubin, “Pollock as Jungian Illustrator: |
127 | “Well, the WPA folded up”: letter from Stella Pollock to Charles Pollock, Feb. 10, |
128 | truly inventive résumé: Joan M. Lukach, |
129 | “I could do an Arp easy”: Potter, |
129 | “tiresome rush”: quoted in Dore Ashton, |
129 | “This . . . NO!”: interview with the artist’s friend and patron Alfonso Ossorio, Feb. |
129 | “mediocrity, if not trash”: Jimmy Ernst, |
130 | “a picture a day”: Jacqueline Bograd Weld, |
131 | “something of a miracle”: “Jackson Pollock: An Artists’ Symposium, Part I,” p. 30. |
132 | “nice”: Jean Connolly, “Art,” |
132 | “Pretty awful, isn’t it?”: Ernst, |
133 | “starry-eyed”: Jean Connolly, “Art,” |
133 | “a real discovery”: Robert Coates, “The Art Galleries,” |
133 | attended the wedding: Busa interview. |
134 | “Who’s L.K.?”: Cindy Nemser, |
134 | “trapped animal”: Peggy Guggenheim, |
134 | “Pollock himself”: ibid. |
135 | “Dear Baroness”: Lukach, |