Untitled

1951

Jackson Pollock

Artist, American, 1912 - 1956

Squiggling and jittery lines in rust brown curl among black splatters and streaks in this horizontal drawing made with ink on cream-white paper. The shapes are mostly evenly spaced around the composition through there are some more sparce areas at the top center and along each of the narrow sides of the sheet. The artist signed and dated the drawing at bottom left corner: "Jackson Pollock 51."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    ink on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 63.18 × 99.06 cm (24 7/8 × 39 in.)
    mount (lined): 66.36 × 102.24 cm (26 1/8 × 40 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.123

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    O'Connor/Thaw 1978, no. 819

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Elkon Gallery, New York); N. Richard Miller, Philadelphia; (Weintraub Gallery, New York); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 5, 1969; bequest to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • Jackson Pollock: Drawing Into Painting, The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, England; Stadtische Kunsthalle Dûsseldorf, Germany; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY, 1979-1980.

2014

  • Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015

2017

  • Jackson Pollock's "Mural", National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Nov. 19, 2017-Oct. 28, 2018 (this drawing was exhibited from Nov. 19, 2017-May 8, 2018)

Bibliography

1978

  • O'Connor, Francis Valentine and Eugene Victor Thaw, editors. Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works. 4 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978, 3:291, no. 812.

2016

  • National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 316, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and black ink: Jackson Pollock 51.

Wikidata ID

Q64579340

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