“This painting is incredibly honest; Pollock isn’t trying to fool us in any way.”
Curator Nicholas Cullinan on Jackson Pollock’s painting Number 28, 1950.
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Photography by Mark Morosse
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Still-photograph composites courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A., Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
"Jackson Pollock," Hans Namuth, 1950, Purchase, Funds from various donors and Matching Funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1981 (1981.1063). Photograph courtesy of the Center for Creative Photography.
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Jackson Pollock
1950
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