query: Jackson Pollock was a native of what country?

title: Jackson Pollock

text: Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy. Pollock died at the age of 44 in an

title: Jackson Pollock

text: of American Art. They were later archived with Lee Krasner's papers. The Archives of American Art also houses the Charles Pollock papers, which include correspondence, photographs, and other files relating to his brother Jackson Pollock. A separate organization, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, was established in 1985. The foundation functions as the official estate for both Pollock and his widow Lee Krasner, but also under the terms of Krasner's will, serves "to assist individual working artists of merit with financial need". The U.S. copyright representative for the Pollock-Krasner Foundation is the Artists Rights Society. The Pollock-Krasner House and Studio is owned and

title: Jackson Pollock

text: was expressed on the large canvases. In 1956, "Time" magazine dubbed Pollock "Jack the Dripper", due to his painting style. Pollock observed American Indian sandpainting demonstrations in the 1940s. Referring to his style of painting on the floor, Pollock stated, "I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk round it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. This is akin to the methods of the Indian sand painters of the West." Other influences on his drip technique include the Mexican muralists and Surrealist automatism. Pollock denied reliance on "the

title: Charles Pollock

text: city where Pollock died in 1988. The Smithsonian American Art Museum also houses dozens of works by Charles Pollock. Charles Pollock Charles Cecil Pollock (25 December 1902 in Denver, Colorado - 8 May 1988 in Paris) was an American abstract painter and the eldest brother of artist Jackson Pollock. Pollock was born on December 25, 1902 in Denver, Colorado. He was the eldest of five brothers born to Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock. His father, who was born as a McCoy, had taken the surname of his parents' neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents died within a

title: Jackson Pollock

text: "This is not art—it's a joke in bad taste." The Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization to promote American culture and values, backed by the CIA, sponsored exhibitions of Pollock's work. Certain left-wing scholars, most prominently Eva Cockcroft, have argued that the U.S. government and wealthy elite embraced Pollock and abstract expressionism to place the United States in the forefront of global art and devalue socialist realism. Cockcroft wrote that Pollock became a "weapon of the Cold War". Pollock, himself described his art as 'motion made visible memories, arrested in space'. Pollock's staining into raw canvas was adapted by the

title: Convergence (Pollock)

text: Convergence (Pollock) Convergence is a 1952 oil painting by Jackson Pollock. The composition was painted on canvas. Convergence is one of the paintings by American artist Jackson Pollock, who is known as a representative of abstract expressionism. The composition was created on a canvas, measuring 93.5 inches by 155 inches. It is an oil painting, which constitutes wide range of colors, lines and shapes, made by method of dripping and pouring paint onto canvas. These lines, spots, circles splattered on a canvas unintentionally convey the artist's emotions. The painting was made during the Cold War with Russia, and it is

title: Convergence (Pollock)

text: considered that the painting represents the idea of freedom of speech. Springbok Editions made the jigsaw puzzle called Convergence in 1964 based on the Pollock's painting. The puzzle consisted of 340 pieces and it was claimed as the most difficult puzzle in the world. The puzzle gained popularity in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Americans acquired the puzzle. Convergence (Pollock) Convergence is a 1952 oil painting by Jackson Pollock. The composition was painted on canvas. Convergence is one of the paintings by American artist Jackson Pollock, who is known as a representative of abstract expressionism. The composition was created on

title: Charles Pollock

text: Charles Pollock Charles Cecil Pollock (25 December 1902 in Denver, Colorado - 8 May 1988 in Paris) was an American abstract painter and the eldest brother of artist Jackson Pollock. Pollock was born on December 25, 1902 in Denver, Colorado. He was the eldest of five brothers born to Stella May McClure and LeRoy Pollock. His father, who was born as a McCoy, had taken the surname of his parents' neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents died within a year of each other. In 1926 Pollock moved to New York to study painting. In 1930, he and another

title: Jackson Pollock

text: technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions. One definitive influence on Pollock was the work of the Ukrainian American artist Janet Sobel (1894–1968) (born Jennie Lechovsky). Peggy Guggenheim included Sobel's work in

title: Jackson Pollock

text: rural American subject matter had little influence on Pollock's work, but his rhythmic use of paint and his fierce independence were more lasting. In the early 1930s, Pollock spent a summer touring the Western United States together with Glen Rounds, a fellow art student, and Benton, their teacher. Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936 at an experimental workshop in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques on canvases of the early 1940s, such as "Male and Female" and "Composition with Pouring I."

title: Dale Pollock

text: Dale Pollock Dale M. Pollock (born 1950) is an American film producer, writer and film professor. A journalist whose works have been published in a number of magazines and newspapers, Pollock is also the author of a biography of George Lucas. Pollock has produced thirteen feature films, one of which ("Blaze") received an Academy Award nomination for Cinematography. As of 2010, he is a professor of Cinema Studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Pollock obtained a B.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University and an M.S. in Communications from San Jose

title: Jackson Pollock

text: comprehensive book, "Pollock Matters", written by Ellen G. Landau, one of the four sitting scholars from the former Pollock Krasner Foundation authentication panel from the 1990s, and Claude Cernuschi, a scholar in Abstract Expressionism. In the book, Ellen Landau demonstrates the many connections between the family who owns the paintings and Jackson Pollock during his lifetime to place the paintings in what she believes to be their proper historic context. Landau also presents the forensic findings of Harvard University and presents possible explanations for the forensic inconsistencies that were found in three of the 24 paintings. However, the scientist who

title: Jackson Pollock

text: sons to San Diego; Jackson was just 10 months old and would never return to Cody. He subsequently grew up in Arizona and Chico, California. While living in Echo Park, California, he enrolled at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, from which he was expelled. He had already been expelled in 1928 from another high school. During his early life, Pollock explored Native American culture while on surveying trips with his father. In 1930, following his older brother Charles Pollock, he moved to New York City, where they both studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Benton's

title: Jackson Pollock

text: have had bipolar disorder. Pollock signed a gallery contract with Peggy Guggenheim in July 1943. He received the commission to create the "Mural" (1943) for the entry to her new townhouse. At the suggestion of her friend and advisor Marcel Duchamp, Pollock painted the work on canvas, rather than the wall, so that it would be portable. After seeing the big mural, the art critic Clement Greenberg wrote: "I took one look at it and I thought, 'Now that's great art,' and I knew Jackson was the greatest painter this country had produced." The catalog introducing his first exhibition described

title: Jackson Pollock

text: administered by the Stony Brook Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of Stony Brook University. Regular tours of the house and studio occur from May through October. Museum links Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945,

title: Jackson Pollock (supercentenarian)

text: The census of 1910 does mention a George Pollock, having an estimated birth date of 1860, married with Lulu Pollock (who has an estimated birth date of 1865), in Finleyson. If this George Pollock was indeed born in 1860, and that this is the same George as the one buried in Mount Air Baptist Church Cemetery, he would have died at the age of 107 years. Since these two are buried in the same cemetery as Jackson Pollock, and the death ages of 107 and 99 years reoccur, it could well be that these two are related to Jackson Pollock

title: Jackson Pollock

text: her "The Art of This Century Gallery" in 1945. Jackson Pollock and art critic Clement Greenberg saw Sobel's work there in 1946 and later Greenberg noted that Sobel was "a direct influence on Jackson Pollock's drip painting technique." In his essay "American-Type Painting," Greenberg noted those works were the first of all-over painting he had seen, and said, "Pollock admitted that these pictures had made an impression on him". While painting this way, Pollock moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush. He used the force of his whole body to paint, which

title: Jackson Pollock

text: an emerging artist. John Bernard Myers, a noted art dealer, was once quoted to say that "there would never have been a Jackson Pollock without a Lee Pollock", whereas Fritz Bultman, a fellow painter, had referred to Pollock as Krasner's "creation, her Frankenstein", both men recognizing the immense impact Krasner had on Pollock's career. Jackson Pollock's influence on his wife's, Lee Krasner's, artwork is often discussed by art historians. Many people thought that Krasner began to reproduce and reinterpret her husband's chaotic paint splatters in her own work. There are several accounts where Krasner intended to use her own intuition,

title: Jackson Pollock (supercentenarian)

text: living at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. He had formerly resided in Dublin, Georgia and was brought to Central State when neighbors feared that he could not live on his own. At one point, records had him listed as Jackson Pollard. Pollock died in 1995 in Baldwin County, Georgia. He was buried next to his parents. His tombstone was provided by John Middleton Co. as he was known to be a fan of their Prince Albert tobacco. Jackson Pollock (supercentenarian) Jackson John Pollock (1869? – 1995) was an American longevity claimant. He was born on a farm near Hawkinsville,

title: Jackson Pollock (supercentenarian)

text: Jackson Pollock (supercentenarian) Jackson John Pollock (1869? – 1995) was an American longevity claimant. He was born on a farm near Hawkinsville, Georgia, the son of former slaves. He claimed his family lived near Finleyson, Georgia. He never married or had any children. He claimed to a reporter to have been born in 1866. Social Security records showed a date of birth of December 25, 1869, though Pollock likely wouldn't have had a birth certificate and Social Security might have been using a date provided by Pollock. He also claimed to have worked as a mail carrier to support his

title: Jackson Pollock

text: was presented also in Matta's workshop about which Steven Naifeh reports: »Once, when Matta was demonstrating the Surrealist technique [Paalen's] Fumage, Jackson [Pollock] turned to (Peter) Busa and said in a stage whisper: ›I can do that without the smoke.‹« Pollock's painter friend Fritz Bultman even stated (hinting at the revolutionary possibility-space of Paalen): "It was Wolfgang Paalen, who started it all." In 1950, Hans Namuth, a young photographer, wanted to take pictures (both stills and moving) of Pollock at work. Pollock promised to start a new painting especially for the photographic session, but when Namuth arrived, Pollock apologized and

title: Jackson Pollock (supercentenarian)

text: and that Jackson Pollock could have confused the death ages with that of his father and mother. In fact, there is a reasonable chance George Pollock is actually the father of Jackson (and John maybe the brother), because if it is true that the father and mother are buried at the same cemetery, then the number of people who could be the father or mother severely declines. Find A Grave only list five people named Pollock who are buried in Mount Air Baptist Church Cemetery and who were born before 1900 (excluding Jackson and including George). In 1972, he began

title: Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock?

text: Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock? Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? is a 2006 documentary following a woman named Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver from California, who purchased a painting from a thrift shop for $5, only later to find out that it may be a Jackson Pollock painting; she had no clue at the time who Jackson Pollock was, hence the name of the film. According to an interview from the film, Horton purchased the painting from a California thrift shop as a gift for a friend who was feeling depressed. Horton thought the bright

title: Jackson Pollock

text: alcohol-related single-car accident when he was driving. In December 1956, four months after his death, Pollock was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. A larger, more comprehensive exhibition of his work was held there in 1967. In 1998 and 1999, his work was honored with large-scale retrospective exhibitions at MoMA and at The Tate in London. Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, the youngest of five sons. His parents, Stella May (née McClure) and LeRoy Pollock, were born and grew up in Tingley, Iowa, and were

title: Jackson Pollock

text: $30 million. In 2013, Pollock's "Number 19" (1948) was sold by Christie's for a reported $58,363,750 during an auction that ultimately reached $495 million total sales in one night which Christie's reports as a record to date as the most expensive auction of contemporary art. In February 2016, Bloomberg News reported that Kenneth C. Griffin had purchased Jackson Pollock's 1948 painting, "Number 17A", for $200 million, from David Geffen. The Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board was created by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1990 to evaluate newly found works for an upcoming supplement to the 1978 catalogue. In the past, however, the Pollock-Krasner

title: Jackson Pollock

text: After his move to Springs, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor and he developed what was later called his "drip" technique. From 1938 to 1942 Pollock worked for the WPA Federal Art Project. During this time Pollock was trying to deal with his established alcoholism, from 1938 through 1941 Pollock underwent Jungian psychotherapy with Dr. Joseph Henderson and later with Dr. Violet Staub de Laszlo in 1941–42. Henderson engaged him through his art, encouraging Pollock to make drawings. Jungian concepts and archetypes were expressed in his paintings. Some historians have hypothesized that Pollock might

title: Jackson Pollock

text: Foundation has declined to be involved in authentication cases. In 2006, a documentary, "Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?" was made concerning Teri Horton, a truck driver who in 1992 bought an abstract painting for five dollars at a thrift store in California. This work may be a lost Pollock painting, but its authenticity is debated. "Untitled 1950", which the New York-based Knoedler Gallery had sold in 2007 for $17 million to Pierre Lagrange, a London hedge-fund multimillionaire, was subject to an authenticity suit before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Done in the

title: Jackson Pollock

text: up to date with what contemporary art should be. Krasner was often considered to teach her husband in the dominant tenets of modernistic painting. Pollock was then able to change his style to fit a more organized and cosmopolitan genre of modern art, and Krasner became the one judge he could trust. At the beginning of the two artists' marriage, Pollock would entrust his counterpart's opinions on what worked and what did not in his pieces. Lee Krasner was also responsible for introducing him to many collectors, critics, and artists, including Herbert Matter, who would help further his career as

title: Jackson Pollock

text: told him the painting was finished. Namuth said that when he entered the studio: Continuing to evade the viewer's search for figurative elements in his paintings, Pollock abandoned titles and started numbering his works. He said about this: "... look passively and try to receive what the painting has to offer and not bring a subject matter or preconceived idea of what they are to be looking for." Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner, said Pollock "used to give his pictures conventional titles ... but now he simply numbers them. Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a picture for what

title: Jackson Pollock

text: as a way to move towards Pollock's "I am nature" technique in order to reproduce nature in her art. Lee Krasner's largest challenge as an artist was to establish a separation between herself and her husband that was not strictly the otherness of a woman. In 1955, Pollock painted "Scent" and "Search," his last two paintings. He did not paint at all in 1956, but was making sculptures at Tony Smith's home: constructions of wire, gauze, and plaster. Shaped by sand-casting, they have heavily textured surfaces similar to what Pollock often created in his paintings. Pollock and Krasner's relationship began

title: Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock?

text: the film's other producer, as well as its director and writer. Horton, who appeared on "The Montel Williams Show", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", and the "Late Show with David Letterman" with the painting, turned down an offer Volpe secured for her of US $9 million from a Saudi Arabian buyer, and says she will take no less than $50 million for the painting. Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock? Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? is a 2006 documentary following a woman named Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver from California, who purchased a painting from

title: Jackson Pollock

text: to as his 'Black pourings' and when he exhibited them at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, none of them sold. Parsons later sold one to a friend at half the price. The departure from his earlier style wasn't what his collectors wanted. These works show Pollock attempting to find a balance between abstraction and depictions of the figure. He later returned to using color and continued with figurative elements. During this period, Pollock had moved to the Sidney Janis Gallery, a more commercial gallery; the demand for his work from collectors was great. In response to this pressure,

title: What Was I Thinkin'

text: The video opens the night of the date when Bentley takes Becky back home. She asks if he would want to do it again, and though he is unsure, he reluctantly agrees. Throughout he is seen performing with his band. "What Was I Thinkin'" reached its peak position of number one on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts dated for the week ending September 27, 2003. The song succeeded Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett's duet "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" at this peak. What Was I Thinkin' "What Was I Thinkin'" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music

title: Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

text: Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center In November 1945, Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner moved to what is now known as the Pollock-Krasner House and Studio in Springs in the town of East Hampton on Long Island, New York. The wood-frame house on with a nearby barn is on Accobonac Creek. Pollock and Krasner had visited friends nearby when they found this house for sale in 1945. The price was $5,000 and Peggy Guggenheim loaned them the $2,000 down payment in exchange for artwork At first Pollock used an upstairs bedroom as a studio. In 1946, after moving the

title: Jackson Pollock

text: a Violent Grave," a collection of reminiscences by Pollock's friends. Streisand was to play the role of Lee Krasner, and De Niro was to portray Pollock. A second was to be based on "Love Affair" (1974), a memoir by Ruth Kligman, who was Pollock's lover in the six months before his death. This was to be directed by Harold Becker, with Al Pacino playing Pollock. In 2000, the biographical film "Pollock", based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, "", directed by and starring Ed Harris, was released. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal

title: Jackson Pollock

text: artwork. The British indie band The Stone Roses were heavily influenced by Pollock; they have cover artwork made of pastiches of his work, starting in 1989 with the album "The Stone Roses". In the early 1990s, three groups of movie makers were developing Pollock biographical projects, each based on a different source. The project that at first seemed most advanced was a joint venture between Barbra Streisand's Barwood Films and Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Productions (De Niro's parents were friends of Krasner and Pollock). The script, by Christopher Cleveland, was to be based on Jeffrey Potter's 1985 oral biography, "To

title: Jackson Pollock

text: of Lee Krasner. The movie was the project of Ed Harris, who portrayed Pollock. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Harris himself painted the works seen in the film. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation did not authorize or collaborate with any production. In September 2009, the art historian Henry Adams claimed in "Smithsonian" magazine that Pollock had written his name in his famous painting "Mural" (1943). The painting is now insured for $140 million. In 2011, the Republican Iowa State Representative Scott Raecker introduced a bill to force the sale of the artwork, held by the University of

title: Jackson Pollock

text: managed his estate and ensured that Pollock's reputation remained strong despite changing art world trends. The couple are buried in Green River Cemetery in Springs with a large boulder marking his grave and a smaller one marking hers. The work of Thomas Hart Benton, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró influenced Pollock. Pollock started using synthetic resin-based paints called alkyd enamels, which at that time was a novel medium. Pollock described this use of household paints, instead of artist's paints, as "a natural growth out of a need". He used hardened brushes, sticks, and even basting syringes as paint applicators. Pollock's

title: Jackson Pollock

text: it is—pure painting." Pollock's work has been the subject of important critical debates. The critic Robert Coates once derided a number of Pollock's works as "mere unorganized explosions of random energy, and therefore meaningless." Jean Helion the French abstract painter on the other hand, on first seeing a 'Pollock' remarked 'it filled out space going on and on because it did not have a start or end to it'. In a famous 1952 article in "ARTnews", Harold Rosenberg coined the term "action painting", and wrote that "what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

title: What a Country!

text: What a Country! What a Country! is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from September 27, 1986 to May 23, 1987. It was based on the 1977-1979 British sitcom "Mind Your Language". The series was intended as somewhat of a showcase for comedian Yakov Smirnoff, whose catchphrase provided the show's title. "What a Country!" is set in a class of recent immigrants to the United States who are trying to pass the citizenship test. Their teacher, Taylor Brown (played by Garrett M. Brown) is an American English language teacher, while the students include Nikolai (a Russian taxi driver), Laszlo

title: Jackson Pollock

text: people of British Columbia and his Fumage paintings which he had seen at Julien Levy's exhibition of Paalen's surrealist paintings in 1940. Pollock owned a signed and dedicated copy of the Amerindian Number of Paalen's magazine (DYN 4-5, 1943), in which the revolutionary space concept in totemist art from the North-West-Coast is broadly discussed from an artist's point of view. Another strong impact must have been Paalen's fumage technique, as it was the surrealist technique with the most magic appeal for those painters who looked for new ways of making appear what was called the "unseen" or the "possible". Fumage

title: Jack Pollock

text: Jack Pollock Jackson Henry Pollock (1 August 1930 – 10 December 1992) was an author, painter, art educator and art dealer who was a fixture on the Toronto art scene for over 3 decades. Pollock was the flamboyant founder and owner of The Pollock Gallery in Toronto. He was widely reputed to have a skilled eye for identifying talent in young artists and was instrumental in the careers of many notable artists that he represented including David Hockney, Susan Ross, Ken Danby, Norval Morrisseau, Roy Thomas, Catherine Senitt, Charles Pachter, Robert Bateman, Robert Kost and Willem de Kooning. Pollock graduated

title: Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

text: the original barn floor, covered in stray paint. The foundation schedules tours of the studio and house during the summer. Part of the property was donated by Krasner to The Nature Conservancy in the 1970s. The surrounding Springs neighborhood is on the National Register of Historic Places. The house and studio was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. The house and studio were used in the making of the biopic "Pollock" (2000), starring and directed by Ed Harris. Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center In November 1945, Jackson Pollock and his wife Lee Krasner moved to what is now known

title: Jackson Pollock

text: Iowa, to fund scholarships, but his bill created such controversy that it was quickly withdrawn. Pollock is mentioned many times throughout the 2009 play "Red", by John Logan. The play's main character, Mark Rothko, was a fellow abstract expressionist of his era. In the play, Rothko speaks to his assistant, Ken, about Pollock's works and his death. A fictional Pollock painting is shown throughout the 2016 movie "The Accountant", by Bill Dubuque. The movie's main character, played by Ben Affleck, gains the painting through his career. He gifts it to the character played by Anna Kendrick at the end of

title: Jackson Pollock (supercentenarian)

text: thirteen siblings, and that he served in the Army during both the Spanish–American War and World War I. In the "Los Angeles Times" interview, he also suggested that his father lived to 99 years of age and his mother to 107. In Mount Air Baptist Church Cemetery, where he (and supposedly his parents) is buried, a certain George and John Pollock are buried, according to Find A Grave. John Pollock was born March 13, 1882 and died April 23, 1981, aged 99. George Pollock died, according to his grave, on June 21, 1967, while his date of birth remains unknown.

title: Pollock (film)

text: Pollock (film) Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's biography. The film opens "in medias res" to abstract expressionist painter

title: Jackson Pollock

text: educated at Tingley High School. Pollock's mother is interred at Tingley Cemetery, Ringgold County, Iowa. His father had been born with the surname McCoy, but took the surname of his adoptive parents, neighbors who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other. Stella and LeRoy Pollock were Presbyterian; they were of Irish and Scots-Irish descent, respectively. LeRoy Pollock was a farmer and later a land surveyor for the government, moving for different jobs. Stella, proud of her family's heritage as weavers, made and sold dresses as a teenager. In November 1912, Stella took her

title: Jackson Pollock

text: 830 Springs Fireplace Road. Pollock converted the barn into a studio. In that space, he perfected his big "drip" technique of working with paint, with which he would become permanently identified. When the couple found themselves free from work they enjoyed spending their time together cooking and baking, working on the house and garden, and entertaining friends. Lee Krasner's influence on her husband's art was something critics began to reassess by the later half of the 1960s due to the rise of feminism at the time. Krasner's extensive knowledge and training in modern art and techniques helped her bring Pollock

title: What a Country!

text: (a retired Hungarian doctor), Ali (a Pakistani), Robert (the son of a deposed African king), Maria (a housekeeper working for a rich Beverly Hills family), Victor (a Hispanic in love with Maria), Yung Hi (a shy Japanese woman) and Sheikh El Hamid (an Arabian sheikh). Gail Strickland initially played the character of Principal Joan Courtney, though she was replaced by Don Knotts during the series' run. The series aired a total of 26 episodes before being canceled. What a Country! What a Country! is an American sitcom that aired in syndication from September 27, 1986 to May 23, 1987. It

title: Pollock (film)

text: womanizing. Pollock argues it's all because she won't have a child. Lee knows he's having an affair with Ruth Kligman, but won't give Jackson a divorce. When she goes to Venice to visit Peggy, Jackson receives a call from her, after which he tells Ruth, "I owe the woman something". On a subsequent visit, Ruth brings along a friend, Edith Metzger; they go for a drive, but Pollock is drunk and crashes the car, killing himself and Edith in 1956. The film was adapted by Barbara Turner and Susan Emshwiller from the book "" by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White

title: A. J. Pollock

text: married after the 2014 season. A. J. Pollock Allen Lorenz "A. J." Pollock (born December 5, 1987) is an American professional baseball center fielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He made his MLB debut in 2012. Pollock was an MLB All-Star and won a Gold Glove Award in 2015. A. J. Pollock was born on December 5, 1987 to parents Al and Karen Pollock. His family lived an hour and forty minutes away from Foxboro, Massachusetts, and Pollock and his father would routinely make the trip to watch

title: A. J. Pollock

text: A. J. Pollock Allen Lorenz "A. J." Pollock (born December 5, 1987) is an American professional baseball center fielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He made his MLB debut in 2012. Pollock was an MLB All-Star and won a Gold Glove Award in 2015. A. J. Pollock was born on December 5, 1987 to parents Al and Karen Pollock. His family lived an hour and forty minutes away from Foxboro, Massachusetts, and Pollock and his father would routinely make the trip to watch New England Patriots' home games.

title: Pollock (film)

text: Jackson Pollock, autographing illustrations in a copy of "Life" magazine for a woman at his 1950 art exhibit. Nine years earlier, Pollock makes a living by exhibiting a painting in occasional group art shows. He is living with his brother Sande and sister-in-law Arloie in a tiny New York apartment. Arloie tells him that they are having a baby, hinting to Pollock that he should move out. Soon afterward, Pollock meets and takes an interest in artist Lee Krasner. Later, at dinner, he learns that his brother is moving to Connecticut to take a job building military gliders to avoid

title: A. J. Pollock

text: Pollock attended RHAM High School in his hometown of Hebron, Connecticut. At RHAM High, Pollock played basketball, soccer, and baseball. In his senior year, Pollock was a member of the National Honor Society. That year, he was named Gatorade Player of the Year in Connecticut, receiving the most votes for a Connecticut player since 1974, and was also named the state's Player of the Year by the coaches association. Pollock finished his high school baseball career with a .411 batting average, 55 runs batted in (RBIs), 26 walks, 27 stolen bases, and eight strikeouts over 248 at bats. Pollock attended

title: A. J. Pollock

text: average. On May 15, 2017, Pollock was placed on the 10-day disabled list due to a right groin strain. Over the course of 112 games in 2017, Pollock would record a batting average of .266, 14 home runs, and 49 RBI. In 2018, Pollock hit .257 with 21 home runs and 65 RBI's. He was also 13/15 in stolen base opportunities. Pollock played for the United States national baseball team at the 2011 Pan American Games. Pollock became engaged to his girlfriend, Kate, in March 2014. They met at Notre Dame, where Kate played for the lacrosse team. They were

title: Charles Pollock

text: Project at the WPA, settling in Detroit, Michigan. Charles Pollock abandoned social realism in the 1940s, and turned to abstract expressionism and Color Field painting. Some attribute the shift to the influence of his famous brother Jackson, although Charles Pollock painted in a very calm and organized manner unlike Jackson's drip painting style. Pollock had painted public works projects for the Michigan State University in the early 1940s, when it was then Michigan State College; three of his murals can be seen in the Fairchild Theatre foyer. A collection of Pollock's later abstract expressionist works are housed in Paris, the

title: A. J. Pollock

text: where he hit .377 and was named MVP of the league. In his junior season at Notre Dame, Pollock hit .365, had an on-base percentage of .443, and a slugging percentage of .610. Pollock also made no errors in 159 chances and stole 21 bases in 25 tries. Pollock became second player ever to lead the team in batting average for three consecutive years. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Pollock in the first round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. The Diamondbacks invited Pollock to spring training in 2010. He broke his right elbow while attempting to make a diving

title: A. J. Pollock

text: catch. Pollock missed the entire season due to the injury. Pollock was called up to the majors for the first time on April 18, 2012, and made his debut that day. Batting as a pinch hitter for Justin Upton, Pollock collected his first career MLB hit, a single, on April 23 against the Phillies. He played in 31 games that season for the Diamondbacks, batting .247 with two home runs and eight RBIs. In 2013, Pollock batted .269 with eight home runs and 38 RBIs the course of 137 games. Pollock missed the second half of the 2014 season with

title: Jack Pollock

text: (Norval Morrisseau's principal dealer since 1989) beside a Morrisseau painting. As Pollock himself had predicted in 1984, he is still mostly recognized for his association with Norval Morrisseau. One - 205 Elizabeth Street, 1960-1961 Two - 201 Elizabeth Street, 1961-1963 Three - 599 Markham Street, 1963-1971 Four - Phase II, Portland Street 1966-1968 Five - 356 Dundas Street West, 1972-1975 Six - Toronto Dominion Centre, 1972-1973 Seven - 122 Scollard Street, 1975-1982 Eight - 209 Adelaide Street East, 1980-1983 Jack Pollock Jackson Henry Pollock (1 August 1930 – 10 December 1992) was an author, painter, art educator and art dealer

title: Edwin A. Pollock

text: The Citadel and was named Chairman Emeritus upon the completion of his term. The auditorium at the headquarters of the Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia, is named in his honor and the bridge leading to the main gate at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina is named the General Edwin Pollock Causeway. Pollock died on 5 November 1982 and is buried at Beaufort National Cemetery, South Carolina. A complete list of the general's medals and decorations include: Edwin A. Pollock Edwin Allen Pollock (21 March 1899 - 5 November 1982) was a General in the

title: A. J. Pollock

text: the University of Notre Dame, where he played college baseball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish as an outfielder and third baseman. Pollock was named a Freshman All-American, leading the team with a .372 batting average. Pollock was rated by Baseball America before his sophomore season as the league's second-best 2009 MLB prospect and best pure hitter. During his sophomore season, Pollock hit .352 and led the team in hitting and stolen bases and was a First-Team All-Big East Conference as a center fielder. Pollock then played in the summer for the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League

title: Pollock-Krasner Foundation

text: Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expressionist painter and the widow of fellow painter Jackson Pollock. Krasner left approximately $23 million in cash, securities and art to the foundation. The foundation provides grants to artists internationally based on "recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need". The foundation also gives out Lee Krasner Awards. These awards are based on the same criteria as grants but also recognize a lifetime of

title: Graeme Pollock

text: Andrew Graeme Pollock, played cricket for Transvaal and Gauteng, while his nephew, Shaun Pollock (son of Peter), retired from the South African Test team in 2008, played in 108 Test matches, captained the country from 2000 to 2003 and is South Africa's leading wicket-taker. In 2003, Pollock expressed his thoughts about the sporting boycott of South Africa: Printed Website Graeme Pollock Robert Graeme Pollock (born 27 February 1944) is a former cricketer for South Africa, Transvaal and Eastern Province. A member of a famous cricketing family, Pollock is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest cricketer, and as one of the

title: Federal Correctional Institution, Pollock

text: Federal Correctional Institution, Pollock The Federal Correctional Institution, Pollock (FCI Pollock) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Louisiana. It is part of the Pollock Federal Correctional Complex and operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. FCC Pollock is located in central Louisiana, approximately 15 miles north of Alexandria. FCI Pollock was constructed between 2005 and 2007. It was built by Flintco, an Oklahoma-based construction company which DiversityBusiness.com listed as the top Native American owned company in 2010. The Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 eliminated parole for

title: George David Pollock

text: Based upon Reverdin's work, Pollock in May 1870 performed the first such successful operation in the United Kingdom. Many British surgeons adopted the technique and for many years what was called the "Reverdin graft" or the "pinch graft" outside the UK was called the "Pollock graft" in the UK. George David Pollock George David Pollock FRCS (1817 – 14 February 1897) was a British surgeon, known as a pioneer of skin grafts. Born in India as the second son of the British officer George Pollock, George David Pollock was sent to England for his early education and then apprenticed to

title: Stewart G. Pollock

text: Stewart G. Pollock Stewart G. Pollock (born 1933) was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1999. A New Jersey native, Pollock was born in East Orange and raised in Brookside. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1954. He received his J.D. in 1957 from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden scholar, and his master of laws degree from the University of Virginia in 1988 (nearly a decade after his appointment to the court). Pollock began his legal career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Newark in 1958, and in 1960

title: Oliver Pollock

text: Oliver Pollock Oliver Pollock (1737, Bready, County Tyrone, Ireland – December 17, 1823, Pinckneyville, Mississippi) was a merchant and financier of the American Revolutionary War, of which he has long been considered a historically undervalued figure. He is often attributed with the creation of the U.S. Dollar sign in 1778. Pollock sailed to North America at the age of 23 in 1760 with his father from his native Ireland to Philadelphia. He settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Two years later, he began his career as a merchant, trading from port-to-port with the Spaniards in the West Indies, and was headquartered

title: Edwin A. Pollock

text: Edwin A. Pollock Edwin Allen Pollock (21 March 1899 - 5 November 1982) was a General in the United States Marine Corps and a highly decorated combat veteran of World War II and Korea; he commanded both the 1st and 2d Marine Divisions and is the only man to have served as Commanding General of both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Marine Force. He had been advanced to the rank of general upon retirement by reason of having been specially commended in combat. Edwin A. Pollock was born on 21 March 1899 in Augusta, Georgia. He attended the local Summerville

title: A. J. Pollock

text: an injury. Up to that point in the season, he was batting .302. In 2015, he was named a National League All-Star. He ended the season batting .315 with 20 home runs and 76 RBIs. Pollock signed to a two-year contract extension worth $10.25 million on February 8, 2016. Pollock broke his right elbow again at the end of spring training, this time on a slide at home plate, and missed most of the 2016 season. In the 12 games he would appear in during the 2016 season, Pollock would record 10 hits on 41 at bats, a .244 batting

title: Oliver Pollock

text: Feliciana Parish, Louisiana including Trudeau House. He remarried in 1805, to Winifred Deady; they had no children. He finally retired in 1819 to Mississippi, where he stayed until his death. Oliver Pollock Oliver Pollock (1737, Bready, County Tyrone, Ireland – December 17, 1823, Pinckneyville, Mississippi) was a merchant and financier of the American Revolutionary War, of which he has long been considered a historically undervalued figure. He is often attributed with the creation of the U.S. Dollar sign in 1778. Pollock sailed to North America at the age of 23 in 1760 with his father from his native Ireland to

title: Shaun Pollock

text: by God and feel I have nurtured my talents to the best of my abilities." After South Africa sealed a series victory against the West Indies, Graeme Smith paid tribute to Pollock, stating "It's very important that people celebrate what he's given to South African cricket and what he's achieved as an individual." Shaun Pollock later represented Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, and Durham Dynamos in the 2008 Twenty20 Cup in England. Pollock took four wickets in four balls on his first appearance for Warwickshire – in a limited-overs (B&H Cup) game v Leicestershire at Birmingham in 1996.

title: Jesus Was a Country Boy

text: way. I feel like people get so confused and wrapped up in religious doctrine that sometimes a person can lose what the meaning is—if that makes any sense. We get so wrapped up in the doctrine of laws that we lose what the true meaning is, and that is to love your neighbor as yourself. That is kind of what this song is really about. It is more a Sermon-on-the-Mount song." Walker told "Country France", "The material that was given to me to record is very different soundly. I wrote a few of the songs, I actually wrote a song

title: Jackson Pollock

text: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation requested a fractal analysis to be used for the first time in an authenticity dispute stirring controversy by researchers at the University of Oregon, which identified differences between the patterns in the 6 disputed paintings analyzed and those in 14 established Pollocks. Pigment analysis of the paintings by researchers at Harvard University showed the presence in one painting of a synthetic pigment that was not patented until the 1980s, and materials in two others that were not available in Pollock's lifetime. In 2007, a traveling museum exhibition of the paintings was mounted and was accompanied by a

title: Stewart G. Pollock

text: He was seated on the court when it made landmark decisions on school funding ("Abbott v. Burke") and exclusionary zoning (the Mount Laurel decisions). Stewart G. Pollock Stewart G. Pollock (born 1933) was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1979 to 1999. A New Jersey native, Pollock was born in East Orange and raised in Brookside. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1954. He received his J.D. in 1957 from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden scholar, and his master of laws degree from the University of Virginia in 1988 (nearly a

title: Jackson Pollock

text: The big moment came when it was decided to paint 'just to paint'. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation from value—political, aesthetic, moral." Many people assumed that he had modeled his "action painter" paradigm on Pollock. Clement Greenberg supported Pollock's work on formalistic grounds. It fit well with Greenberg's view of art history as a progressive purification in form and elimination of historical content. He considered Pollock's work to be the best painting of its day and the culmination of the Western tradition via Cubism and Cézanne to Manet. "Reynold's News" in a 1959 headline said,

title: Jackson Pollock

text: to crumble by 1956, owing to Pollock's continuing alcoholism and infidelity involving Ruth Kligman. On August 11, 1956, at 10:15 pm, Pollock died in a single-car crash in his Oldsmobile convertible while driving under the influence of alcohol. At the time Krasner was visiting friends in Europe and she abruptly returned on hearing the news from a friend. One of the passengers, Edith Metzger, was also killed in the accident, which occurred less than a mile from Pollock's home. The other passenger, Ruth Kligman, an artist and Pollock's mistress, survived. For the rest of her life, his widow Lee Krasner

title: Algernon J. Pollock

text: to defend against ideas contrary to what he perceived as orthodox Christianity. Pollock was also editor of the "Gospel Tidings" hymnbook and "The Gospel Messenger" magazine, and his essay on "Modern Spiritualism" was condensed for inclusion in "The Fundamentals". He also had his pamphlet on Christadelphianism condensed for inclusion in the well known Apologetical work "Heresies Exposed", which was edited by William C. Irvine Algernon J. Pollock Algernon James Pollock (14 October 1864 – 5 January 1957) was an evangelist and writer from the Plymouth Brethren movement. Pollock was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He made a profession of faith in Christ

title: James Pollock

text: consecration.' Pollock co-founded Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, a homeless shelter and soup kitchen, in 1878 with notable fellow churchgoers John B. Stetson and John Wanamaker. What began as a simple cup of coffee and roll before church has grown to become the leading emergency shelter and largest indoor provider of meals in Philadelphia. Pollock has a residence area, dining commons, computer learning center, and campus road named for him on the University Park campus of Penn State University, the institution which received its charter during his term as governor. James Pollock James Pollock (September 11, 1810 – April 19, 1890)

title: Harry Jackson (artist)

text: was strongly influenced by Jackson Pollock's painting "The Moon-Woman Cuts the Circle", which he said "shot the first crack of daylight into my blocked-off brain". Jackson recalled, "That single artwork caused me to relive (1943) Tarawa's bloody butchery; I knew that I had to meet Pollock face to face ASAP." He was also influenced by Wassily Kandinsky's work. During this "artistic conversion", Jackson moved to New York, befriended Pollock, and began painting in the abstract expressionist style. He gained a following after art critic Clement Greenberg and art historian Meyer Schapiro included Jackson in their "Talent 1950" exhibition at the

title: Jackson Pollock

text: Color Field painters Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis. Frank Stella made "all-over composition" a hallmark of his works of the 1960s. The Happenings artist Allan Kaprow, sculptors Richard Serra and Eva Hesse, and many contemporary artists have retained Pollock's emphasis on the process of creation; they were influenced by his approach to process, rather than the look of his work. In 2004, "One: Number 31" was ranked the eighth-most influential piece of modern art in a poll of 500 artists, curators, critics, and dealers. In 1960, Ornette Coleman's album "" featured a Pollock painting, "The White Light", as its cover

title: Jackson Pollock

text: along with personal frustration, his alcoholism deepened. The two artists met while they both exhibited at the McMillen Gallery in 1942. Krasner was unfamiliar, yet intrigued with Pollock's work and went to his apartment, unannounced, to meet him following the gallery. In October 1945, Pollock and Lee Krasner were married in a church with two witnesses present for the event. In November, they moved out of the city to the Springs area of East Hampton on the south shore of Long Island. With the help of a down-payment loan from Peggy Guggenheim, they bought a wood-frame house and barn at

title: Jackson Pollock

text: Pollock's talent as "... volcanic. It has fire. It is unpredictable. It is undisciplined. It spills out of itself in a mineral prodigality, not yet crystallized." Pollock's most famous paintings were made during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950. He rocketed to fame following an August 8, 1949 four-page spread in "Life" magazine that asked, "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" At the peak of his fame, Pollock abruptly abandoned the drip style. Pollock's work after 1951 was darker in color, including a collection painted in black on unprimed canvases. These paintings have been referred

title: Sharon Pollock

text: Sharon Pollock Sharon Pollock, (born 19 April 1936 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian playwright, actor, director, who lives in Calgary, Alberta. She has been Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary (1984), Theatre New Brunswick (1988–1990) and Performance Kitchen & The Garry Theatre, the latter which she herself founded in 1992. In 2007, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Pollock is one of Canada's most notable playwrights, and is a major part of the development of what is known today as Canadian Theatre. Mary Sharon Chalmers was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick on 19 April

title: Jackson Pollock

text: painter's classic drip-and-splash style and signed "J. Pollock", the modest-sized painting (15 by 281 1/2 in) was found to contain yellow paint pigments not commercially available until about 1970. The suit was settled in a confidential agreement in 2012. In 1999, physicist-artist Richard Taylor used computer analysis to show similarities between Pollock's painted patterns and fractals (patterns that recur on multiple size scales) found in natural scenery, reflecting Pollock's own words "I am Nature." His research team labelled Pollock's style Fractal Expressionism. In 2003, 24 Pollockesque paintings and drawings were found in a locker in Wainscott, New York. In 2005,

title: John A. Pollock (businessman)

text: John A. Pollock (businessman) John A. Pollock, b. 1936, is a businessman and philanthropist, who was the president of his family's company, Electrohome, from 1972 to 2008. He also was the seventh chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University, and held this position from March 31, 2008 to October 28, 2011. Pollock was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, obtaining a Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Toronto, where he was President of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University. He has also received Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from both

title: John A. Pollock (businessman)

text: Cambridge Memorial Hospital, the Grand River Conservation Foundation and Junior Achievement of the Region of Waterloo. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Western Ontario, the Board of Directors of the University of Waterloo, the Science Council of Canada and the Trillium Foundation of Ontario. He has also served as chairman of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and St. John’s-Kilmarnock School, a private school serving the Waterloo Region area. Pollock and his wife Joyce had four children. John A. Pollock (businessman) John A. Pollock, b. 1936, is a businessman and philanthropist, who was the president of

title: John A. Pollock (professor)

text: of TRP in the 1980’s, Pollock has re-focused his research on TRP related proteins that are involved in pain sensation in the peripheral nervous system. Pollock also collaborates with Jelena Janjic, Ph.D. of the School of Pharmacy of the Rangos School of Health Sciences at Duquesne University analyzing the involvement of neuroinflammation in the changes in TRPV1 expression and the attenuation of inflammation with nano-emulsion delivered drug therapy. In addition to neurobiology, Pollock has taught such subjects as developmental biology, light microscopy, physics, calculus, astronomy and ethics. As director and executive producer of The Partnership in Education, Pollock specializes in

title: John A. Pollock (businessman)

text: Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. In 1972, he succeeded his father Carl A. Pollock as president of Electrohome, a Kitchener, Ontario-based electronics company founded by his grandfather Arthur Bell Pollock in 1907. Electrohome was widely known as the Canadian equivalent of US companies like General Electric and RCA. Pollock led the company into developing a number of different electronics products, both consumer and industrial, including specialized data displays for the New York Stock Exchange, large-screen projection televisions, reverse osmosis/ultrafiltration systems, and in the late 1970s and 1980s, custom monitors for many leading video games manufacturers including Atari

title: John A. Pollock (professor)

text: the highest national mentoring award bestowed by the White House, which recognizes those who have "demonstrated excellence in mentoring individuals from groups that are underrepresented in STEM education and workforce." <ins> </ins> Pollock also received the<ins> </ins>2011 Carnegie Science Award honoring his efforts in informal science education and was named an Apple Distinguished Educator in 2017. He has been a featured speaker at a TEDxYouth conference in 2016 and engages in community service by volunteering as a reading tutor, among other activities. John A. Pollock (professor) John A. Pollock, is a Full Professor of Biological Science at Duquesne University Bayer

title: Jackson Pollock

text: invented one of the modern pigments dismissed the possibility that Pollock used this paint as being "unlikely to the point of fantasy." Subsequently, over 10 scientific groups have performed fractal analysis on over 50 of Pollock's works. A recent study which used fractal analysis as one of its techniques achieved a 93% success rate distinguishing real from fake Pollocks. Current research of Fractal Expressionism focuses on human response to viewing fractals. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that Pollock's fractals induce the same stress-reduction in observers as computer-generated fractals and Nature's fractals. Lee Krasner donated Pollock's papers in 1983 to the Archives

title: Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock?

text: doubtful, because the painting was purchased at a thrift store, is unsigned, and is without provenance. The main problem with the painting is that it "does not have the soul of a Pollock," according to collectors. In addition, Pollock had many imitators during his lifetime. However, a forensic specialist matched a fingerprint on the painting with those on two authenticated Pollocks and a can of paint in his studio, as well as finding other evidence. On another level, the movie explores the challenges faced by an average but determined citizen who takes on the elitist, high-stakes world of art dealership.

title: Edwin A. Pollock

text: constantly exposed to extreme danger, directed the defense of our forces for a period of twelve hours. As a result of his excellent judgment and superb leadership, the men under his command destroyed practically the entire enemy force of seven hundred."" Pollock was succeeded by Lieutenant Colonel William W. Stickney on 23 September 1942 and was subsequently appointed Executive Officer of the 1st Marines. He was later transferred to the staff of the 1st Marine Division under Major General William H. Rupertus and appointed Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3) for Plans and Operations in July 1943. Pollock was promoted to

title: What It Was, Was Football

text: film. What It Was, Was Football Mason “What It Was, Was Football” is a monologue by actor-comedian Andy Griffith. The monologue is a description of a college football game, as seen by a naive country preacher who attends the game by accident and is entirely puzzled by it. At Griffith's request, Milton Alderfer (who was only 19 at the time), recorded and produced the original master tape in Greensboro, North Carolina. The master was then sent to Chapel Hill, North Carolina and mass-produced by the Colonial Records label in late 1953. Soon, after Colonial had sold nearly 50,000 copies of

title: What It Was, Was Football

text: What It Was, Was Football Mason “What It Was, Was Football” is a monologue by actor-comedian Andy Griffith. The monologue is a description of a college football game, as seen by a naive country preacher who attends the game by accident and is entirely puzzled by it. At Griffith's request, Milton Alderfer (who was only 19 at the time), recorded and produced the original master tape in Greensboro, North Carolina. The master was then sent to Chapel Hill, North Carolina and mass-produced by the Colonial Records label in late 1953. Soon, after Colonial had sold nearly 50,000 copies of the

title: Edwin A. Pollock

text: of the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico. During his time there, he spent a period of intensive training aboard the battleship USS "Arkansas", while attached to the 1st Marine Regiment. At the beginning of August 1934, Pollock was transferred to the cruiser USS "Salt Lake City", where he assumed command of the Marine detachment aboard. While in this capacity, he was promoted to the rank of Captain in November 1934. During June 1936, Pollock was assigned to the Marine Barracks at Naval Ammunition Depot St. Julien's Creek, Virginia and spent there one year of duty, before he was ordered to the

title: Who the $&% Is Jackson Pollock?

text: colors were cheery, but when the dinner-table-sized painting proved too large to fit into her friend's trailer, Horton set it out among other items at a yard sale, where a local art teacher spotted it and suggested that the work could have been painted by Pollock due to the similarity to his action painting technique. At one point Horton and her friend decided the painting would be good for target practice, but they never got around to trying that activity. The film depicts Horton's attempts to authenticate and sell the painting as an original work by Pollock. Its authenticity was

title: Hugh Alexander Pollock

text: the Home Guard in 1940, based at a (now demolished) country house at Denbies in Dorking. Pollock had met aspiring author Ida Crowe, 19 years younger, after she submitted in the 1920s her first novel, "Palanquins and coloured lanterns", to George Newnes and the firm lost it during six months; Pollock retrieved the book, and it was finally published in the mid-1930s. After years of friendship, Pollock now asked Crowe to join him in Dorking in a secretarial role. During a bungled firearms training session on a firing range, he was hit by shrapnel and Ida contacted Enid, who declined

title: Edwin A. Pollock

text: Academy, South Carolina. He spent one year at Staunton Military Academy, Virginia, before he enrolled at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina during the summer of 1918. Graduating with the class of 1921, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and subsequently was appointed a second lieutenant in the Army Reserve that June. Pollock resigned his army commission to accept appointment as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps on July 1, 1921. He was subsequently sent for further education to the Marine Corps Schools within Marine Barracks Quantico, Virginia. Pollock attended Company Officers' Course and following his

title: Edwin A. Pollock

text: Philadelphia Navy Yard, where he was appointed as Officer in Charge of the Publicity Bureau. He was promoted to the rank of Major during September 1938 and finally left Philadelphia in June 1939. Pollock was subsequently attached to the Senior Course at the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico and following his graduation, he remained in Quantico Schools as Assistant Instructor in the Base Defense Weapons and Reserve Officers' courses. Following the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Pollock was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in January 1942 and subsequently assumed command of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment under Colonel

title: Edwin A. Pollock

text: "V" for his merits and also second Navy Presidential Unit Citation. In November 1945, Pollock was again ordered to Quantico. He served there successively as Commanding Officer of the Basic School, Executive Officer of the Marine Corps Schools, and Chief of Staff of the Marine Barracks. Subsequently assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., he was appointed military secretary to the Commandant of the Marine Corps in June 1948. In July 1949, with his promotion to brigadier general, he became Director of Plans and Policies at Headquarters Marine Corps. Pollock was promoted to major general in October 1951. That December,