Untitled, 1951

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Medium

ink on Japanese paper

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

O'Connor/Thaw 1978, no. 819

Accession Number

2012.92.123

Artists / Makers

Jackson Pollock (artist) American, 1912 - 1956

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Inscription

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

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

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

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.