No. 15

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No. 15

United States, 1950
Paintings
Oil on masonite
22 × 22 in. (55.88 × 55.88 cm)
Museum Associates Purchase Award (M.51.5.7)
Modern Art
Currently on public view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

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Label

Comprising tangled skeins of paint, No....
Comprising tangled skeins of paint, No. 15 demonstrates Jackson Pollock’s “drip” technique that characterized the artist’s gestural, expressive style, a hallmark of Abstract Expressionism, which emerged in the United States in the climate of Cold War politics and social and political conservatism. Upending the conventions of traditional easel painting, Pollock flung, poured, and splattered commercial house paint onto unstretched canvases, Masonite, or paper laid on his studio floor. Although the compositions may appear frenetic, Pollock’s paint application is surprisingly controlled, achieving a balanced distribution of color and line, evenly framed by a more sparsely painted edge.

Wall label, 2021.
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  • Catalogue of Jackson Pollock Retrospective.  New York: The Museum of Modern Art, November 1998
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