1. Jackson Pollock
“Jack the Dripper”

2. Childhood Born: January 28, 1912 Youngest Native American art Father:
LeRoy Pollock and Stella McClure
Youngest
Native American art
Father:
Farmer turned Government Surveyor
Abusive Alcoholic
Left the family

3. School Years Charlie Manual Arts High School New father figure
Artistic influence
Manual Arts High School
Expelled for fighting

4. Early Years of Art 1929 New York Art Student’s League
Thomas Hart Benton
Regionalism
Surrealism
“Going West”

5. Love Life Lee Krasner Jackson consumed by alcoholism
Art viewing
Fellow artist
October 1945
Jackson consumed by alcoholism
Marriage destroyed by alcohol and affair

6. Art Prime 1940s – Fully abstract 1947 – Only Drip and Splash style
“Jack the Dripper”
Life Magazine

7. Death August 11, 1956 Driving home Flipped car
Killed Pollock and friend
Mistress, first called

8. “The She-Wolf” 1948
“Male and Female”
1942
“Key” 1946

9. “Shimmering” 1946
“Teacup” 1946

10. “Yellow Grey Black” 1948
“Number 23” 1948

11. “No. 5”
1948
Untitled