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Jackson Pollock
Artist
born Cody, WY 1912-died East Hampton, NY 1956
- Born
- Cody, Wyoming, United States
- Died
- East Hampton, New York, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Biography
Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries, Jackson Pollock's work defined America's artistic coming of age.
Born in Cody, Wyoming, he first studied art in 1925 in Los Angeles, where he developed an interest in sculpture.
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By 1929, encouraged by his brother, he moved to New York to pursue painting at the Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton, who was to remain a supporter throughout Pollock's life. During the thirties Pollock blended his Benton-derived brand of Regionalism with elements of Surrealism.
From 1938 to 1940, he worked for the WPA, creating representational murals. Pollock's marriage in 1945 to the artist Lee Krasner, a student of Hans Hofmann's, brought him into closer contact with the New York avant-garde.
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