Jackson Pollock: Early Seascapes

More about the Artist

Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was an
influential American painter and a major contributor to the abstract expressionist movement. He began to study painting in 1929 at the Art Students’ League in New York. While he experimented with several different styles of painting, he is most well known for “action painting.” Instead of painting on an easel, Pollock taped his canvas to the floor then would stand above his canvas and literally drip and splash paint from a can onto the canvas.

Though he was subject to much criticism, by the 1960s he was recognized as the most important figure in the most important movement of this century of American painting. No. 5, 1948 is currently the most expensive painting ever sold for approximately $150.6 million adjusted US dollars. Visit jacksonpollock.com for more information and artwork.