The fantastic art history YouTube channel Great Art Explained has a great two-episode series on Jackson Pollock. In Part One ...

Ernst was married to Pollock’s most significant patron, the collector and dealer Peggy Guggenheim. It was at her landmark New York gallery, Art of This Century, that Pollock had his first solo ...

The tour guides say Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner were happy here. The two artists practised in a shabby, brown-shingled fisherman’s cottage in Springs, Long Island, with the Accabonac Creek ...

Jackson Pollock once infamously urinated in the fireplace of his patron Peggy Guggenheim. Learn more on their strange dynamic in Art Bites.

Before Jackson Pollock became Jackson Pollock, he was Lee Krasner’s husband. Lee Krasner helped Jackson Pollock become Jackson Pollock, until in 1949, Jackson Pollock became God.

In 1942, Peggy Guggenheim opened Art of This Century, a New York gallery devoted to promoting the avant-garde, displaying works by surrealists and abstract paintings, many of which were drawn ...

This is the way the story has always been told: in 1947, Jackson Pollock, the pioneering American painter whose rugged name rhymes with the verve of his virile persona, finally lost patience with ...

her newfound jewels. She saw herself as “the midwife” of the American avant-garde, having given many of the big names of modern art their first solo exhibition. Perhaps her most incredible work as a ...

Jackson Pollock’s 20-foot-wide “Mural” (1943), originally commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim and now owned by the University of Iowa. He structured the composition with seven more or less ...

I n 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned her newest protégé, the thirty-one-year-old Jackson Pollock, to paint a mural for the entrance hall of her apartment in a townhouse on East Sixty-first Street.

Courtesy of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum In 1943 Jackson Pollock created what would be his largest-ever painting: Mural. Although Pollock was not yet consistently working with canvases on the ...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum officially reopens its doors on Saturday after six long months of closure with three major shows, including a Jackson Pollock exhibit that features a mural that ...