Art Institute of Chicago

Greyed Rainbow

Jackson Pollock · 1953

Provenance

Ownership history

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, “Jackson Pollock: New Oils,” February 1–27, 1954, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, “61st American Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture,” October 21–December 5, 1954, cat. 122, as “Grayed Rainbow.”
Art Institute of Chicago, “15th Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition,” April 27–May 30, 1955, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat.
Art Institute of Chicago, “26th Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition,” April 8–May 10, 1966, no cat.

Literature

Robert Coates, “Review,” “New Yorker” (February 20, 1954), pp. 81–82.
James Fitzsimmons, “Art,” “Arts and Architecture” 71, 3 (March 1954), pp. 7, 30.
Thomas B. Hess, “Jackson Pollock,” “ARTnews” 53, 1 (March 1954), p. 40.
“Annual Report 1954–1955” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1955), n.pag.
“Commentari,” 3 (July–September 1955), fig. 8 (inverted ill.).
Rudolph Arnheim, “Accident and the Necessity of Art,” “Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism” 16, 1 (September 1957), fig. 4 (ill.), as “Grayed Rainbow.”
Frank O’Hara, “Jackson Pollock,” Great American Artists (George Braziller, 1959), pl. 81 (ill.).
Bryan Robertson, “Jackson Pollock” (Harry N. Abrams, 1960), p. 96, pl. 167 (ill.), as “Grayed Rainbow.”
“Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), pp. 359, as “Grayed Rainbow,” 391 (ill.).
David M. Robb and J. J. Garrison, “Art in the Western World,” 4th ed. (Harper and Row, 1963), pp. 635–36, 637, fig. 545 (ill.), as “Grayed Rainbow.”
Faber Birren, “History of Color in Painting” (Reinhold Publishing, 1965), p. 360, pl. 15-20 (ill.).
René Huyghe, ed., “Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art” (Prometheus Press, 1965), fig. 816 (ill.), as “Grayed Rainbow.”

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