NGA: Jackson Pollock:the artist6

Thomas Hart Benton, The Ballad of the Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley, 1934, Spencer Museum of Art/Univeristy of Kansas, The Elizabeth M. Watkins Fund

Benton's depression era pictures swirl with the turbulence and tension of the 1930s. Pollock, who often posed for his teacher, is the young harmonica player in the foreground.