Jackson Pollock

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.

The Spirit of Surrealism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3-November 25, 1979).

The Spirit of Surrealism

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

Year in Review: 1980

Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).

Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960

CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005).

CMA Highlights

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscapes by Arnold Chang: A Retrospective and Recent Acquisitions 張洪山水畫回顧展. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-November 9, 2025).

Landscapes by Arnold Chang: A Retrospective and Recent Acquisitions 張洪山水畫回顧展

Jackson Pollock. Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (November 28-December 16, 1950).

Jackson Pollock 1948-1951. Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France (March 7-31, 1952).

Object and Image in Modern Art and Poetry. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 30-June 14, 1954).

Pollock. Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1957).

The New American Painting. Basel, Kunsthalle, (April 19-May 26, 1958); traveled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, (July 19-August 17, 1958); organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council); possibly traveled to Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Milan, Italy (June 1-29, 1958); Hochscule fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany (September 1-October 1, 1958); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (October 17-November 24, 1958); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (December 6, 1958-January 4, 1959); Tate Gallery, London, England (February 24- March 23, 1959); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (May 28-September 8, 1959).

Jackson Pollock and the New American Painting. Musée National D'Art Moderne, Paris, France (January 16-February 15, 1959); organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).

Recent Acquisitions. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1959–1960).

First International Modern Art Exhibition. Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1960).

Painting and Sculpture and Graphic Art from the Museum Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1962–1963).

Two Decades of Americian Painting, selected by Waldo Rasmussen. Organized by Museum of Modern Art, New York, shown at: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, (October 15-November 27, 1966); National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (December 10, 1966-January 22, 1967); Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India (March 28-April 15, 1967); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (June 6-July 9, 1967); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (July 17-August 13, 1967).

The Art of the Real: An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968. Tate Gallery, London, England. Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council) (April 24-June 1, 1969).

A vertically oriented oil painting is completely overlaid with thick paint swirls of black, gray, white, and yellow that occasionally 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.

(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss)

Walter [1919–2007] and Molly Bareiss [1920–2006], Greenwich, CT, given to the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Number 5, 1950

Young Madonna

Court Lady Pouring Wine (recto)

Pair of naga finials

Portrait of a Woman (Mrs. Ann Hivlyn)

The Oath of Abraham’s Servant

General Admission Is Always Free

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Number 5, 1950

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Number 5, 1950

Jackson Pollock

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Number 5, 1950

Jackson Pollock

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