(Image: Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943. Oil and casein on canvas, 242.9 x 603.9 cm. Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6. University of Iowa Museum of Art. Reproduced with permission from The University of Iowa. On view at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice: Jackson Pollock’s Mural: Energy Made Visible (April 23 through November 16, 2015).
It’s “a stampede… [of] every animal in the American West, cows and horses and antelopes and buffaloes. Everything is charging across that goddamn surface.”
—Jackson Pollock
Exhibition Catalogue: Jackson Pollock’s Mural: Energy Made Visible by David Anfam (Thames & Hudson)
Insight into Jackson Pollock’s Mural from conservation scientists and curators at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI).
Sources & Further Reading:
- *Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice: Jackson Pollock’s Mural: Energy Made Visible (April 23 through November 16, 2015)
- Christies: Deborah Wilk, ‘Where Jackson Pollock broke the ice (4/30/2015)
- Khan Academy: Jackson Pollock, Mural
- University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), Collections, Jackson Pollock
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