POLLOCK, Jackson
(1912–1956)
POLLOCK, Jackson (28 January 1912–11 August 1956). Following his oldest brother's ambition for a painting career, Jackson Pollock went to New York as a young man, studying with the prominent Americanist painter Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), among others, who taught him realisms that Pollock quickly outgrew. Lacking conventional facility, Pollock was not a good student. Befriending the Russian-American painter John Graham , Pollock learned not only about modern European painting but primitive…