The Key

1. The artist, East Hampton, New York; given to Lee Krasner Pollock, by 1956 [1978 O’Connor and Thaw]; bequeathed to the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1984 [according to the will of Lee Pollock, relevant pages provided by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; copy in curatorial file]; sold through Jason McCoy, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 26, 1987.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Art of This Century, “Jackson Pollock,” January 14–February 1, 1947, cat. 12.
• Art Institute of Chicago, “Abstract and Surrealist American Art: Fifty–Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture,” November 6, 1947–January 11, 1948, cat. by Frederick A. Sweet and Katharine Kuh, cat. 182 (ill.).
• Vermont, Bennington College, “A Retrospective Show of the Paintings of Jackson Pollock,” November 17–30, 1952; traveled to Williamstown, Mass., Lawrence Art Museum, Williams College, December 1–22, 1952, exh. pamphlet, cat. 3.
• New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, “15 Years of Jackson Pollock,” November 28–December 31, 1955, cat. 7 (ill.).
• São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, “Pollock,” “IV Bienal,” September 22–December 31, 1957, n.pag., cat. 9.
• Rome, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, “Jackson Pollock: 1912–1956,” March 1–30, 1958, organized by the International Council at the Museum of Modern Art, cat. 9; traveled to Kunsthalle Basel, April 19–May 26, 1958, cat. 9, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, June 6–July 7, 1958, cat. 9, Hamburg Kunstverein, July 19–August 17, cat. 9, Berlin, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, September 3–October 1, 1958, cat. 8, London, Whitechapel Gallery, November 5–December 14, 1958, p. 11, cat. 8, and Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, January 16–February 15, 1959, cat. 8.
• Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, “Jackson Pollock,” September 5–October 8, 1961, cat. 76 (ill.).
• Kunsthaus Zürich, “Jackson Pollock,” October 24–November 29, 1961, cat. 76.
• New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, “Jackson Pollock,” January 14–February 15, 1964, cat. 79 (color ill.).
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s,” July 16–August 1, 1965, curated by Maurice Tuchman, cat. 78 (ill.); rev. ed. (1971), fig. 84 (ill.).
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Jackson Pollock,” November 1, 1988–February 2, 1999, organized by Kirk Varnedoe with Pepe Karmel; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, March 11–June 6, 1999, pp. 47, 49, 321, 323 (photo), 327–328 (photo), pl. 109 (color ill.).
• Paris, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Jackson Pollock: The Early Years, Oct. 15, 2024-Jan. 19, 2025, cat. 117.

• “The Best?,” “Time” ( December 1, 1947), 55.
• “Jackson Pollock,” “ARTnews” 45, 12 (February 1947), 45.
• Jackson Pollock, “My Painting,” “Possibilities” 1, 1 (Winter 1947–48), 79 (ill.).
• P.T., “Jackson Pollock,” ARTnews” 54, 8 (December 1955), 53.
• Dore Ashton, “Art,” “Arts and Architecture” 73, 1 (January 1956), 10.
• Frank O’Hara, “Jackson Pollock,” Great American Artists (George Braziller, 1959), pl. 26 (ill.).
• Bryan Robertson, “Jackson Pollock” (Harry N. Abrams, 1960), 52, 144, pl. 48 (color ill.).
• Yoshiaki Tono, “Jackson Pollock, or the New Rite of Hate-Love for Image,” “Mizue” 672 (April 1961), 9.
• Francis V. O’Connor, “Jackson Pollock,” exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1967), 40, 42, 68, 72.
• Harold Rosenberg, “The Art World: A Mythic Act,” “New Yorker” (May 6, 1967), pp. 162–71, repr. in Helen A. Harrison, ed., “Such Desperate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock” (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000), 133.
• Italo Tomassoni, “Pollock” (Florence: Sadea Editore, 1968; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1969), pl. 32–3 (color ill.).
• James T. Valliere, “Interview with Clement Greenberg,” March 20, 1968, printed in Helen A. Harrison, ed., “Such Desperate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock” (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000), p. 255 (photo).

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