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Jackson Pollock

Untitled

Maker

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956)

Title

Untitled

Year

1939-1940

Medium

  • Pencil on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Pencil on paper

Materials

pencil

Supports

  • Smooth medium weight wove paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Label: exhibition labels: Tate Gallery, London: 11 March - 6 June 1999; MoMA, NYC: 1999

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Strasmich in memory of Ida Malloy

Object Number

1991.023

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 9: Out of Line

Exhibition History

Carl Ostendarp
Pulled Up
Feb 13, 2009 – Aug 23, 2009
The New York School
Aaron Siskind in Context
Nov 07, 2003 – Jan 25, 2004

Label copy

For Pollock, contact with the surrealists was crucial to his artistic development. This drawing is a particularly developed example of images that Pollock created and discussed during psychiatric counseling that began in 1938. The drawing refers to the theories of Carl Jung, who viewed the unconscious as a vast reservoir of collective memory that manifests itself as universal myths and symbols, such as the mandala forms that surround the figure on the horse. Pollock’s emblematic jottings were inspired in part by occult mysticism and the imagery of Native American religions, which were also sources for surrealist production

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Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956)
Untitled, 1939-1940
Pencil on paper
Sheet: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 inches)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Strasmich in memory of Ida Malloy 1991.023

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