Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways a curious partnership. Pollock was the son of a Nevada rancher who had moved on to California. Lee's father was a Jewish emigrant from Poland who owned a food store in Brooklyn. Pollock sweated out lonely struggles with himself. Krasner was more suggestible. Sometimes her work echoed Mark Tobey, other times Mondrian, most often De Kooning...
Success began to come to Pollock; and the deadly cycle that can afflict suddenly famous artists started. Pollock fell into drinking bouts and took up with girls; Krasner began to commute to Manhattan to see a psychiatrist...
...August night in 1956, with two girls in his car, Pollock drove into a tree. Only 44, he was killed instantly. So was one of the girls. The other, Ruth Kligman, has written a pathetic, petty account of the tragedy in a recent issue of New York magazine...
...months Lee was rigid with despair. Then, in a sudden blossoming-or release-she began painting again. She also became the art world's most formidable "art widow." As heir to all of Pollock's work, she doled out paintings at a careful pace, consulted endlessly with lawyers and galleries. Critic Harold Rosenberg once credited her with "almost singlehandedly forcing up the prices for contemporary American...
Died . George Biddle , 88 , portrait painter and muralist who in 1933 helped found the WPA art project that lasted through the 1930s and provided work for such artists as Jackson Pollock, Reginald Marsh and Willem de Kooning; in Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. A Harvard-trainedlawyer whose brother, Francis Biddle, was U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to 1945, Biddle turned to art when he was 26, and became best known for the frescoes he painted in the Department of Justice building in Washington