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Number 5, 1950

1950

Jackson Pollock

(American, 1912–1956)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1980.180
Copyright
© Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
227 Abstract Expressionism
Print
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Did You Know?

Although he was born Paul Jackson Pollock, he always went by his middle name.

Description

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.
Vertically oriented oil painting completely overlayed with thick paint swirls of black, grey, white, and yellow that occassionaly thin into fine streaks and splatter into flecks and blobs. Occasionally a field of cream, blue, or green shows through from under the swirling mass.

Number 5, 1950

1950

Jackson Pollock

(American, 1912–1956)
America

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