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Chapter Fifteen: Final Years

238
.

“Is this a painting?”: B. H. Friedman, “Interview with Lee Krasner,”
Jackson Pollock: Black and White
, exhibition catalogue (New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1969), n.p.

238
.

“pulling up in his coupe”: interview with Al Cavagnaro, Jan. 1984.

239
.

“Found Jackson Pollock”: Town of East Hampton Police Department, daily log, Dec. 23,
1953.

239
.

“they’re really painted”: Emily Genauer, New York
Herald Tribune
, Feb. 7, 1954.

239
.

recognized his 1953 paintings for what they were: interview with Clement Greenberg.

240
.

“I don’t agree that he had shot his bolt”: letter from David Smith to Adolph Gottlieb,
Aug. 23, 1956, Gottlieb Foundation.

240
.

“I’m an old man”: interview with Cile Lord, Feb. 1984.

240
.

“Do you think I would have painted this crap . . . ?”: letter from Rodman’s wife Maia
Wojciechowska to author, Aug. 8, 1984.

240
.

“I can paint better than this guy”: Clement Greenberg to James Valliere, unpublished
interview, March 1968, Pollock Archive.

241
.

“It’s full of holes”: interview with Herbert Ferber, March 1985.

241
.

“I’m the best fucking painter”: interview with May Natalie Tabak Rosenberg, Dec. 1983.

241
.

“Jackson, you’re the greatest painter”: interview with Sidney Geist, March 1984.

241
.

“What, me hit an artist?” John Gruen,
The Party’s Over Now
(New York: Viking, 1967), p. 229.

241
.

“The reconciliation isn’t real”: letter from Clement Greenberg to Sue Mitchell, June
20, 1956.

242
.

ordered new art materials: interview with Lou Rosenthal, Sept. 1984.

242
.

“Remember how good?”: Lord interview.

243
.

“You can’t do that kind of painting anymore”: ibid.

243
.

“All my sympathy”: letter from James Johnson Sweeney to JP, July 15, 1954, Pollock
Archive.

243
.

“knitted by now”: card from Clement Greenberg to JP, Aug. 19, 1954, Pollock Archive.

243
.

“I hear you have broken your leg again”: letter from Martha Jackson to JP, Feb. 14,
1955, Pollock Archive.

243
.

“I’m going to Europe”: interview with Milton Resnick, April 1984.

244
.

“more deserving”: letter from Clement Greenberg to David Smith, Aug. 16, 1956. Smith
papers, Archives of American Art.

244
.

send him a polite apology: A copy of Baur’s letter can be found in the Pollock Archive.

245
.

“Can you imagine being married . . . ?”: Jeffrey Potter,
To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock
(New York: Putnam, 1985), p. 174.

245
.

“I don’t want food”: Lord interview.

246
.

“You have such warm eyes”: Ruth Kligman,
Love Affair: A Memoir of Jackson Pollock
(New York: Morrow, 1974), p. 31.

246
.

“would always love him”: ibid., p. 43.

246
.

“Get that woman off my property”: ibid., p. 95.

247
.

On July 12 Lee sailed: letter from Stella Pollock to Frank Pollock, July 23, 1956.

247
.

“I can’t go”: interview with Carol Braider, Jan. 1984.

247
.

“You know I’m a painter . . . ?”: Kligman,
Love Affair
, p. 163.

247
.

“I miss you”: letter from LK to JP, July 21, 1956,
Catalogue Raisonné
, Vol. 4, p. 276.

247
.

“last painting place”: card from LK to JP, n.d., Pollock Archive.

247
.

“minimized what I had done for him”: letter from Peggy Guggenheim to Clement Greenberg,
Feb. 12, 1958, Greenberg papers, Archives of American Art.

249
.

“I feel pretty sick”: interview with Roger Wilcox, Jan. 1984.

249
.

“Let me out”: Kligman,
Love Affair
, p. 201.

249
.

“Two dead at scene of accident”: Town of East Hampton Police Department, daily log,
Aug. 11, 1956.

249
.

“Jackson is dead”: interview with Paul Jenkins, Jan. 1984.

Chapter Sixteen: Lee by Herself

251
.

“He is gone”: letter from Stella Pollock to Irene Crippen, Jan. 6, 1967.

252
.

“I had to realize”: Barbara Rose,
Lee Krasner: A Retrospective
(New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1983), p. 95.

252
.

seventeen new canvases: Eleanor Munro,
Originals:
American Women Artists (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979 [paperback, S&S, 1982],
p. 116.

252
.

“The second attempt”: ibid.

253
.

“we had a little less trouble”: Les Levine, “A Portrait of Sidney Janis Taken on the
Occasion of his 25th Anniversary as an Art Dealer,”
Arts
(Nov. 1973), p. 53. See also Calvin Tompkins,
Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time
(New York: Penguin, 1981), p. 122.

254
.

“I wish I had as much money”: Jeffrey Schaire, “Was Jackson Pollock Any Good?”
Art & Antiques
(Oct. 1984), p. 85.

254
.

“There were many happy moments”: John Gruen,
The Party’s Over Now
(New York: Viking, 1967), p. 233.

255
.

Lee had admired: interview with Ruth Stein, June 1986.

INDEX

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below

Abel, Lionel

Abstract and Surrealist Art in America
(Janis)

Abstract Expressionism

abstract painting

Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Académie Julian

Accabonac Creek
(Pollock)

“action painting”

Alchemy
(Pollock)

Alfieri, Bruno

Allen, Edward

“allover” painting

American Abstract Artists group

“American and French Paintings” show

American Indian culture

“American Painting Today—1950” show

American Scene painting

America Today
(Benton)

April
(Krasner)

Art Digest

Art Front

Art News

Art of This Century

closing of

Pollock’s shows at

Arts and Architecture

“Arts of the South Seas” show

Art Students League

Pollock’s studies at

Ashcan school

Atelier

Australian National Gallery

Autumn Rhythm
(Pollock)

Avery, Frances

Avery, Milton

Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, The
(Benton)

Barr, Alfred

Bathers by a River
(Matisse)

Baur, John I. H.

Baytime
(Pollock)

Baziotes, William

Bell, Leland

Bellow, Saul

Benevy, Herbert

Ben-Shmuel, Ahron

Benton, Rita

musical talents of

Pollock’s relationship with

“relief show” organized by

Benton, Thomas Hart

abstract painting disdained by

“hollow and bump” method of

murals of

nationalist sympathies of

Pollock as champion of

Pollock befriended by family of

Pollock’s stylistic break with

realistic style of

sketching trips of

as teacher

Benton, Thomas Hart (U.S. Senator)

Benton, T. P.

Betty Parson’s Gallery

Biddle, George

Birth
(Pollock)

Bloomingdale Asylum, see New York Hospital, Westchester Division

Blue Poles
(Pollock)

Borglum, Gutzon

Brancusi, Constantin

Brando, Marlon

Braque, Georges

Breton, André

Breton, Jacqueline

Bridgman, George

Brooklyn Museum

Brooks, James

Browne, Byron

Bultman, Fritz

Bunce, Louis

Burckhardt, Rudy

Burlin, Paul

Burrows, Carlyle

Busa, Peter

Calder, Alexander

calligraphy

Camp with Oil Rig
(Pollock)

Cardonsky, Darby

Cassatt, Mary

Castelli, Leo

Cathedral
(Pollock)

Cedar Tavern

Cezanne, Paul

Chareau, Pierre

Charred Landscape
(Krasner)

Chase, Janet

Chase, William Merritt

Chicago World’s Fair (1933)

Circumcision
(Pollock)

City and Country School

Coates, Robert

Cody, William “Buffalo Bill”

Cody, Wyoming

Cody Enterprise

collage

Collins, William P.

Comet
(Pollock)

communism

Composition with Masked Forms
(Pollock)

Composition with Pouring II
(Pollock)

Conaway, Arloie, see Pollock, Arloie Conaway

Connolly, Jean

Convergence
(Pollock)

Cooper Union, Women’s Art School of

Cotton Pickers
(Pollock)

Craven, Thomas

Creative Arts

Creative Printmakers

Cubism

ancient Aztec and Toltec

Lee Krasner’s use of

Picasso’s use of

Pollock’s use of

Surrealism vs.

Curry, John Steuart

Dabrowsky, Ivan, see Graham, John

Dali, Salvador

Darrow, Whitney, Jr.

Davis, Stuart

de Chirico, Giorgio

Deep, The
(Pollock)

de Kooning, Willem

Pollock and

Delaney, Joe

de Laszlo, Violet Staub

De Niro, Robert

Depression, Great

“bank holidays” in

poverty in

Devree, Howard

Dial

Diamond Mountain Inn

Diller, Burgoyne

Downtown Gallery

Dragon, Ted

“drip” paintings

“Drippings, Le”

Duchamp, Marcel

Durand-Ruel Gallery

Earth Green
(Krasner)

Easter and the Totem
(Pollock)

East Hampton Star

Egan, Charles

Egg Beater
series (Davis)

Eighth Street Club

England, Elizabeth

Ernst, Max

Eskimo masks

“Exhibition Momentum 1951” show

Falkenberg, Paul

“Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism” show

Feeley, Paul

Feldman, Morton

Ferargil Gallery

Ferber, Herbert

Figures in a Landscape
(Pollock)

Finch, Earl

“First Papers of Surrealism” show

Flack, Audrey

“Fourteen Americans” show (1946)

Fox, Ruth

Frankenthaler, Helen

French & Company Galleries

frescoes

Freud, Sigmund

Full Fathom Five
(Pollock)

Galaxy
(Pollock)

Gallatin, A. E.

Gallery of Living Art

Geist, Sidney

Genauer, Emily

Going West
(Pollock)

Goldstein, Philip, see Guston, Philip

Goodnough, Robert

Gorky, Arshile

Gottlieb, Adolph

Graham, Constance

Graham, John

Green, Theodore

Greenberg, Clement

death-of-the-easel-picture theory of

on Pollock

Greenwich House

Grippe, Peter

Grosz, George

Guardians of the Secret, The
(Pollock)

Guernica
(Picasso)

Guggenheim, Peggy

American artists shown by

galleries founded by

Lee Krasner and

loan to Pollock by

as patron and collector

on Pollock

Pollock championed by

Pollock mural commissioned by

Pollock’s contract with

Pollock’s work given away by

“Spring Salons” of

Guggenheim, Solomon R.

Guggenheim jeune Gallery

Guild Hall

Guston, Philip

Gyp, dogs named

Hare, David

Harmonica Rascals

Harper’s Bazaar

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