In 1943 Jackson Pollock created what would be his largest-ever painting: Mural. Although Pollock was not yet consistently working with canvases on the floor—pouring and dripping paint from all sides, ...
After a near-decade long world tour, the Jackson Pollock oil painting simply known as “Mural” is back in Iowa City and will return to public display later this month. Lauren Lessing, director of the ...
IOWA CITY - The University of Iowa's Jackson Pollock “Mural,” which survived a controversial proposal last month to sell the famed painting, may spend a year and a half on an international tour. The ...
"[Jackson] Pollock would often begin with some sort of figurative device to which he would then respond—and eventually bury under layers of paint," says Sue Taylor, an art historian at Portland State ...
Stretching nearly twenty feet wide by eight feet high, Mural (1943) is the largest painting Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) ever made, and it proved a breakthrough for the artist. Across the painting’s ...
As part of its regular Thursdays at the Figge programming, the University of Iowa Museum of Art Interim Director Pamela White will give a short informal talk about the Jackson Pollock masterpiece ...
The crate that transported Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” from its home state to the Getty Center in Los Angeles in the summer of 2012 would not withstand the rigors of transportation across the country, ...
As one of the most famous American painters, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock has enjoyed a certain longevity in the American public consciousness as well as popular culture (including nods in ...
SIOUX CITY | A 70-year-old mural by iconic American artist Jackson Pollock is being prepped for its Siouxland unveiling. Currently hanging on a wall in the Margaret Ann Martin Everist Gallery at the ...
The idea has once again arisen to sell University of Iowa’s Jackson Pollock masterpiece “Mural” (1943), but this time it’s not to pay for flood damage to the University’s museum. Representative Scott ...
Getty Research Journal, No. 9, SUPPLEMENT 1: SPECIAL ISSUE: Examining Pollock: Essays Inspired by the Mural Research Project (2017), pp. 99-110 (12 pages) Scholarship on Jackson Pollock traditionally ...