A Museum of Modern Art curator, the late Kirk Varnedoe, said Mural established Jackson Pollock as the world's premier modern painter. I was researching a book about Pollock's lifelong relationship ...

Confessions of an Art Addict [1946] (New York: Universe Books, 1979), 296. I thank the anonymous reader of this essay for calling this to my attention, as well as for other generous comments. 58. On ...

When Pollock’s car careered ... appearing at the opening of an art gallery on the arm of a supernova,” says Gabriel. “If it hadn’t been for Lee Krasner, Jackson would not have been the ...

Then I met him, and that was it.” In the years that followed, the pair made art history: one with commotion—Jackson Pollock; the other with devotion—Lee Krasner, who became his wife.