Peggy Guggenheim
Collection - Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’: Energy Made Visible. The exhibition Jackson
Pollock’s ‘Mural’: Energy Made Visible, until November 16 is curated by David
Anfam. This touring exhibition focuses on Jackson Pollock’s Mural (1943,
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City), following its 18-month campaign
of conservation and cleaning at the Getty Conservation Institute, L.A. The
immensely dynamic Mural is the largest painting Pollock created and it has
exerted a seismic impact on American art down to the present day. Commissioned
in the summer of 1943 by Peggy Guggenheim for her New York townhouse, Mural
established a new sense of scale and audacity for the Abstract Expressionist
movement, anticipating the classic ‘poured’ abstractions that Pollock would
begin four years later. Setting Mural into context, the selection includes
Pollock’s newly-restored Alchemy, as well as works by the artist’s wife Lee
Krasner, David Smith and Robert Motherwell. Crucially, it also sheds new light
on Pollock’s relationship to such photographers of action and energy as Herbert
Matter, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind and Gjon Mili.
Above: Jackson Pollock –
Mural – 1943.
Video: Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’: Energy Made Visible narrated by
the curator of the exhibition David Anfam, Senior Consulting Curator, Clyfford
Still Museum, Denver.
Herbert Matter - Jackson Pollock
in his studio - The Springs, East Hampton - 1947
Jackson Pollock’s paint cans,
brushes, sticks and cooking basters
Peggy Guggenheim
Collection
Charles Pollock - A Retrospective
Peggy Guggenheim
Collection – Charles Pollock: A Retrospective. Until September 14 at the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection, the full
retrospective is dedicated to Charles Pollock (1902 – 1988), elder brother of
Jackson Pollock. The exhibition Charles Pollock: A Retrospective, curated by
Philip Rylands, Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, documents
Charles’s full career, with most of the material (art and documents, some of it
never before exhibited) being loaned by the Charles Pollock Archives, Paris. A
small number of works by Jackson Pollock, Thomas Hart Benton and a unique
painting by Sanford Pollock complement Charles’s early years in New York and
Washington. Early letters, photos and sketches document the relations between
siblings Charles and Jackson.
Above. Charles Pollock - Self
Portrait – 1930s.
Video: Charles Pollock: A
Retrospective - narrated by curator Philip Rylands - Director - Peggy
Guggenheim Collection
Charles Pollock: A Retrospective
Charles Pollock – Landscape 3 –
(Martha’s Vineyard) – ca. 1930
Charles Pollock: A Retrospective
Charles Pollock
Untitled 1966 – Gregoire 1966 –
Delta 1967
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