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Number 5, 1950
1950
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956)
American Painting and Sculpture
Number 5, 1950, 1950. Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956). Oil on canvas; framed: 138 x 102 x 5 cm (54 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 136.5 x 99.1 cm (53 3/4 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1980.180 © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Notoriously nicknamed "Jack the Dripper" by Time magazine, Pollock pioneered the technique of flinging pigment from store-bought cans of paint onto canvas placed flat on the floor. Filled with intricate webs of lines and intermingled spatters, paintings such as Number 5, 1950 are unusually direct records of the artist's moving body and hand gestures. Pollock was married to Lee Krasner, whose work is also exhibited in this gallery.
- Maker/Artist
- Pollock, Jackson
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 138 x 102 x 5 cm (54 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 136.5 x 99.1 cm (53 3/4 x 39 in.)
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1980.180
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1980, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, (28 November - 16 December 1950), no cat.<br>Paris, Studio Paul Facchetti, Jackson Pollock 1948-1951 (7-31 March 1952).<br>New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Object and Image in Modern Art and Poetry (30 April - 14 June 1954), no. 27.<br>Sao Paulo, Brazil, Museo de Arte Moderna, Pollock (1957), no. 19.<br>Basel, Kunsthalle, The New American Painting (19 April - 26 May 1958), no. 18; traveled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, 19 July - 17 August 1958; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council); possibly traveled to Milan, Galleria civica d'arte moderna (1-29 June 1958); Berlin, Hochscule fur Bildende Kunst (1 September - 1 October 1958); Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (17 October - 24 November 1958); Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts (6 December 1958 - 4 January 1959); London, Tate Gallery (24 February - 23 March 1959); New York, Museum of Modern Art (28 May - 8 September, 1959)<br>Paris, Musée National D'Art Moderne, Jackson Pollock and the New American Painting (16 January - 15 February 1959), no. 16; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).<br>New York, Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions (1959-1960).<br>Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno, First International Modern Art Exhibition (1960).<br>New York, Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture and Graphic Art from the Museum Collection (1962-3).<br>Organized by Museum of Modern Art, New York, Two Decades of Amercian Painting, selected by Waldo Rasmussen: shown at: Japan, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Oct 15-November 27, 1966; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, December 10, 1966-January 22, 1967; India, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, March 28-April 15, 1967; Australia, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, June 6-July 9, 1967; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, July 17-August 13, 1967 <br>London, Tate Gallery, The Art of the Real: An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968 (24 April - 1 June 1969), p. 54, cat. no. 37, ill. p. 16; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).<br>Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Spirit of Surrealism (3 October - 25 November 1979), no. 94.<br>Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review for 1980 (1981), no. 106.<br>Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, September 16-November 8, 1987, cat. no. 42, p. 131. repr., color pl. VIII, p. 81.<br>The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/21/2005 - 09/11/2005); "CMA Highlights"<br>MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art" no. 91, p. 121, color repr. p. 100.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- 227 Abstract Expressionism
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