“What did you think”: interview with Milton Resnick, April 1984.
200.
“Pollock broke the ice”: de Kooning made the comment at a memorial service for Pollock sponsored by The Club on Nov. 30, 1956.
201.
left before the lecture was over: letter from LK to Ossorio, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, p. 247.
201.
“Jackson didn’t like doing things with coffee”: John Gruen, The Party’s Over Now (New York: Viking, 1967).
202.
“notoriously hostile to advanced art”: “18 Painters Boycott Metropolitan; Charge ‘Hostility to Advanced Art,’ ” The New York Times, May 22, 1950, p. 1.
202.
“The Irascible Eighteen”: editorial, “The Irascible Eighteen,” New York Herald Tribune, May 23, 1950.
202.
“like bankers”: B. H. Friedman. “The Irascibles: A Split Second in Art History,” Arts (Sept. 1978), p. 102.
202.
“neutral territory”: ibid.
204.
“Piccolo discorso sui quandri di Jackson Pollock”: undated magazine clipping from L’Arte Moderna, Pollock Archive.
204.
“Do you know any Italian”: interview with Marie Levitt Pollock, July 1983.
205.
“shrug off”: “Chaos, Damn It!” Time, Nov. 20, 1950, p. 71.
205.
“at least for artist Pollock”: letters, Time, Dec. 11, 1950, p. 10.
206.
“I can’t decide whether this painting is finished”: telephone interview with Rudy Burckhardt, Sept. 1985.
208.
“The painting is finished”: Hans Namuth, “Photographing Pollock,” in Barbara Rose, ed., Pollock Painting (New York: Agrinde Publications, 1978), n.p.
208.
“Do you have any more?”: interview with Hans Namuth, Dec. 1983.
210.
drew attention to Pollock’s technique: see Barbara Rose, “Namuth’s Photographs and the Pollock Myth,” in Pollock Painting.
210.
“At a certain moment”: Harold Rosenberg, “The American Action Painters,” Art News (Dec. 1952), p. 22.
211.
“I lost contact with my first painting on glass”: Jackson Pollock movie, produced by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg, 1951.
Chapter Thirteen: The “Black” Paintings
214.
“The big thing right now”: letter from Jay Pollock to Frank Pollock, postmarked Dec. 3, 1950, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 255.
215.
“meaningless embellishment”: Robert M. Coates, “Extremists,” The New Yorker, Dec. 9, 1950, p. 110.
215.
“personal comment”: Howard Devree, The New York Times, Dec. 3, 1950, Sec. II, p. 9.
215.
“richest and most exciting”: B.K. [Belle Krasne], “Fifty-seventh Street in Review,” Art Digest, Dec. 1, 1950, p. 16.
215.
didn’t know where his paintings came from: letter from Clement Greenberg to the author, April 1, 1984.
215.
“I found New York terribly depressing”: letter from JP to Ossorio and Dragon, Jan. 6, 1951, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 257.
215.
“I really hit an all time low”: letter from JP to Ossorio, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 257.
216.
“Who, exactly, has he hit”: interview with Clement Greenberg, Dec. 1983.
216.
“like a movie star”: Jeffrey Potter, To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock (New York: Putnam, 1985), p. 210.
217.
“while I was in there”: ibid., pp. 195–96.
217.
“One couldn’t entertain a dialogue”: Deborah Solomon, “An Interview with Helen Frankenthaler,” Partisan Review, 50th Anniversary Issue (1984), p. 795.
217.
“Dali once told me”: Selden Rodman, Conversations with Artists (New York: Devin-Adaro, 1957), pp. 107–08.
218.
“I heard you were talking yesterday”: Fielding Dawson, An Emotional Memoir of Franz Kline (New York: Pantheon, 1967), p. 84.
218.
“I loathed the place”: Barbara Rose movie, Lee Krasner: The Long View, 1978, distributed by the American Federation of Arts.
218.
“Don’t bother bringing him up”: interview with Dan Rice, 1983.
218.
“above water”: letter from JP to Ossorio, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 257.
219.
“jurying was something I swore I’d never do”: letter from JP to Ossorio, n.d., in Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 258.
219.
“That’s awful”: telephone interview with the painter Leon Golub, a member of the Momentum group, Dec. 1983.
219.
“The jurying was disappointing”: letter from JP to Ossorio and Dragon, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 258.
219.
“not too happy”: letter from JP to Ossorio and Dragon, June 7, 1951, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 262.
219.
“My home is in Springs”: Jackson Pollock movie, produced by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg, 1951.
220.
“this is exotic music”: telephone conversation with Paul Falkenberg, Sept. 1985.
220.
“feel good about them”: letter from JP to Ossorio, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 258.
220.
“stops the show”: B.H. [Betty Holliday], Art News (April 1951), p. 47.
221.
“the chef-d’école”: Henry McBride, Art News (Dec. 1951), p. 20.
221.
“Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Pollack”: The East Hampton Star, May 10, 1951, p. 6.
222.
“How did it go?”: Barbara Rose, “Pollock’s Studio: Interview with Lee Krasner,” in Barbara Rose, ed., Pollock Painting (New York: Agrinde Publications, 1978), n.p.
222.
“some of her best painting”: letter from JP to Ossorio and Dragon, June 7, 1951, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 261.
223.
“a very quiet summer”: letter from JP to Ossorio and Dragon, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 263.
224.
“Should I cut it here?”: B. H. Friedman, “Interview with Lee Krasner,” Jackson Pollock: Black and White, exhibition catalogue (New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1969), n.p.
224.
“the non-objectivists will find them disturbing”: letter from JP to Ossorio and Dragon, June 7, 1951, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 61.
225.
“This is Lee’s show”: telephone interview with Jacob Kainen, Dec. 1983.
225.
“could you do it in color?”: Friedman, “An Interview with Lee Krasner,” Jackson Pollock: Black and White, n.p.
225.
“My paintings aren’t selling”: Greenberg interview.
226.
“If Pollock were a Frenchman”: Clement Greenberg, “Feeling Is All,” Partisan Review (Jan.-Feb. 1952), p. 97.
226.
“All I want is five hundred dollars”: interview with Arloie McCoy, Dec. 1983.
226.
“Where’s the emulsion?”: interview with Alfonso Ossorio, Feb. 1984.
227.
“I have been skinned alive”: letter from JP to Ossorio, March 30, 1952, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 267.
227.
standing on a high structure: B. H. Friedman, Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible (McGraw-Hill, 1974), p. 172.
227.
a vacuum cleaner: William Lieberman, Jackson Pollock: The Last Sketchbook (New York: Johnson Reprint and Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982), p. 13.
227.
“Two cars”: ibid.
227.
“Weather clear”: This report is in the files of the Town of East Hampton police department.
227.
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Jackson Pollock, Artist: The East Hampton Star, Jan. 3, 1952, p. 1.
Chapter Fourteen: Blue Poles
228.
“I never pushed sales”: Ken Kelley, “Betty Parsons Taught America to Appreciate What It Once Called ‘Trash’: Abstract Art,” People, Feb. 27, 1978, p. 83.
228.
“my financial mess”: letter from JP to Betty Parsons, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 245.
228.
“If you cannot give me 15%”: letter from Betty Parsons to JP, June 25, 1951, Pollock Archive.
228.
“Betty sailed last Sat”: letter, from JP to Ossorio, n.d., Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 262.
229.
“very anxious”: letter from Betty Parsons to JP, Jan. 31, 1952, Pollock Archive.
229.
“Since Manet”: interview with Clement Greenberg, Dec. 1983.
230.
“Do you think the market”: interview with Sidney Janis, Jan. 1984.
230.
“The edge is gone”: Thomas B. Hess, Art News (April 1952), p. 17.
231.
“Here, get out of here”: interview with Jane Smith, the widow of Tony Smith, Dec. 1984.
231.
“a bicycle, an automobile tire”: The East Hampton Star, Aug. 28, 1952, p. 6.
231.
“I still respect you as an artist”: Cindy Nemser, Art Talk (New York: Scribner’s, 1975), p. 94.
231.
“very severe shock”: ibid.
232.
“For crissakes, Jackson”: Stanley P. Friedman, “Loopholes in ‘Blue Poles,’ ” New York, Oct. 29, 1973, p. 48.
233.
“looked like vomit”: ibid.
233.
Newman regretted the request: telephone conversation with Annalee Newman, 1985.
233.
“This won’t come through”: Barbara Rose, “Pollock’s Studio: An Interview with Lee Krasner,” in Pollock Painting, ed. Barbara Rose (New York: Agrinde Publications, 1978), n.p.
235.
“This is Jackson Pollock”: Janis interview.
236.
the highest price: Israel Shenker, “A Pollock Sold for $2 Million, Record for American Painting,” The New York Times, Sept. 22, 1973, p. 1.
236.
“not bad paintings”: Clement Greenberg to James Valliere, unpublished interview, March 1968, Pollock Archive.
236.
“The last thing I want”: Greenberg interview.
237.
“You’re a fool”: ibid.
237.
“At a certain moment”: Harold Rosenberg, “The American Action Painters,” Art News (Dec. 1952), p. 22.
237.
Pollock was appalled: William Rubin, “Pollock as Jungian Illustrator: The Limits of Psychological Criticism,” Art in America (Dec. 1979), p. 91; see also letter from Parker Tyler, Art News (March 1961), p. 6.
Chapter Fifteen: Final Years
238.
“Is this a painting?”: B. H. Friedman, “Interview with Lee Krasner,” Jackson Pollock: Black and White, exhibition catalogue (New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1969), n.p.
238.
“pulling up in his coupe”: interview with Al Cavagnaro, Jan. 1984.
239.
“Found Jackson Pollock”: Town of East Hampton Police Department, daily log, Dec. 23, 1953.
239.
“they’re really painted”: Emily Genauer, New York Herald Tribune, Feb. 7, 1954.
239.
recognized his 1953 paintings for what they were: interview with Clement Greenberg.
240.
“I don’t agree that he had shot his bolt”: letter from David Smith to Adolph Gottlieb, Aug. 23, 1956, Gottlieb Foundation.
240.
“I’m an old man”: interview with Cile Lord, Feb. 1984.
240.
“Do you think I would have painted this crap . . . ?”: letter from Rodman’s wife Maia Wojciechowska to author, Aug. 8, 1984.
240.
“I can paint better than this guy”: Clement Greenberg to James Valliere, unpublished interview, March 1968, Pollock Archive.
241.
“It’s full of holes”: interview with Herbert Ferber, March 1985.
241.
“I’m the best fucking painter”: interview with May Natalie Tabak Rosenberg, Dec. 1983.
241.
“Jackson, you’re the greatest painter”: interview with Sidney Geist, March 1984.
241.
“What, me hit an artist?” John Gruen, The Party’s Over Now (New York: Viking, 1967), p. 229.
241.
“The reconciliation isn’t real”: letter from Clement Greenberg to Sue Mitchell, June 20, 1956.
242.
ordered new art materials: interview with Lou Rosenthal, Sept. 1984.
242.
“Remember how good?”: Lord interview.
243.
“You can’t do that kind of painting anymore”: ibid.
243.
“All my sympathy”: letter from James Johnson Sweeney to JP, July 15, 1954, Pollock Archive.
243.
“knitted by now”: card from Clement Greenberg to JP, Aug. 19, 1954, Pollock Archive.
243.
“I hear you have broken your leg again”: letter from Martha Jackson to JP, Feb. 14, 1955, Pollock Archive.
243.
“I’m going to Europe”: interview with Milton Resnick, April 1984.
244.
“more deserving”: letter from Clement Greenberg to David Smith, Aug. 16, 1956. Smith papers, Archives of American Art.
244.
send him a polite apology: A copy of Baur’s letter can be found in the Pollock Archive.
245.
“Can you imagine being married . . . ?”: Jeffrey Potter, To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock (New York: Putnam, 1985), p. 174.
245.
“I don’t want food”: Lord interview.
246.
“You have such warm eyes”: Ruth Kligman, Love Affair: A Memoir of Jackson Pollock (New York: Morrow, 1974), p. 31.
246.
“would always love him”: ibid., p. 43.
246.
“Get that woman off my property”: ibid., p. 95.
247.
On July 12 Lee sailed: letter from Stella Pollock to Frank Pollock, July 23, 1956.
247.
“I can’t go”: interview with Carol Braider, Jan. 1984.
247.
“You know I’m a painter . . . ?”: Kligman, Love Affair, p. 163.
247.
“I miss you”: letter from LK to JP, July 21, 1956, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 4, p. 276.
247.
“last painting place”: card from LK to JP, n.d., Pollock Archive.
247.
“minimized what I had done for him”: letter from Peggy Guggenheim to Clement Greenberg, Feb. 12, 1958, Greenberg papers, Archives of American Art.
249.
“I feel pretty sick”: interview with Roger Wilcox, Jan. 1984.
249.
“Let me out”: Kligman, Love Affair, p. 201.
249.
“Two dead at scene of accident”: Town of East Hampton Police Department, daily log, Aug. 11, 1956.
249.
“Jackson is dead”: interview with Paul Jenkins, Jan. 1984.
Chapter Sixteen: Lee by Herself
251.
“He is gone”: letter from Stella Pollock to Irene Crippen, Jan. 6, 1967.
252.
“I had to realize”: Barbara Rose, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1983), p. 95.
252.
seventeen new canvases: Eleanor Munro, Originals: American Women Artists (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979 [paperback, S&S, 1982], p. 116.
252.
“The second attempt”: ibid.
253.
“we had a little less trouble”: Les Levine, “A Portrait of Sidney Janis Taken on the Occasion of his 25th Anniversary as an Art Dealer,” Arts (Nov. 1973), p. 53. See also Calvin Tompkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (New York: Penguin, 1981), p. 122.
254.
“I wish I had as much money”: Jeffrey Schaire, “Was Jackson Pollock Any Good?” Art & Antiques (Oct. 1984), p. 85.
254.
“There were many happy moments”: John Gruen, The Party’s Over Now (New York: Viking, 1967), p. 233.
255.
Lee had admired: interview with Ruth Stein, June 1986.
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