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...Provincetown, asks his readers "I wonder if it's worth the game/To be thus affable and tame?" and gives us two more poems as well. And other poets, too interesting to mention, are also there. The only good bit is an amusing lazy poem called "Summer" written by Dorothy Pollock-Watson and fun to read...
Your fine story succeeded in flushing out an old friend, co-worker and protagonist of Jackson Pollock's. It's me. I was a high school chum of Pollock's, later in 1930 we left Los Angeles for New York to broaden ourselves technically. We began a hard classic training at the Art Students League. To pay for our tuition and materials, we shared studios, worked as bus boys, garbage removers and dishwashers at the League cafeteria. School over, we hung up our respective shingles in the Village as professionals...
...years Pollock and I worked furiously at our painting, but nothing happened. We bummed around the country and brought our works back to New York galleries, but no one noticed our efforts. The academic painters seemed to have full control, and any deviator or nonconformist was an outsider, thus rejected. After eleven years of this struggle, I gave up to try my hand at ideas I wanted to develop in small towns in California, but Pollock remained in New York and continued his fight against academism...
Thus, whether or not one finds merit in Pollock's paintings is immaterial. His works remain as symbols of man's struggle against conformity, complacency, bigotry and methodism. He demonstrated that man's free spirit is more valuable than anything else he possesses...
Once the three directors were convinced of the validity of their theme, they made a careful selection of artists, visited studios, often insisted on a particular painting. They decided on two free-form spontaneous doodles by the late Jackson Pollock, violent outbursts of vivid colors by Willem de Kooning, a melancholic mood piece by Grace Hartigan, harshly contrasting patterns by Richard Pousette-Dart. They added four morbidly humorous, squashed-face portraits by France...