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Jackson Pollock
Black and White Number 201951

On view:
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3
Large vertical abstract painting with dense, overlapping black gestural marks, loops, and splatters on an off-white ground, with open oval clearings

Jackson Pollock, Black and White Number 20, 1951, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David E. Bright Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jackson Pollock
United States, 1912-1956
Title
Black and White Number 20
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1951
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
64 × 57 1/8 in. (162.56 × 145.1 cm)
Credit Line
David E. Bright Bequest
Accession Number
M.67.25.16
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Powell III, Earl A., Robert Winter, and Stephanie Barron. The Robert O. Anderson Building. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • John Marin: 1870-1953. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1970.

  • Tuchman, Maurice, editor. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965.

  • Delahunty, Gavin, ed. Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots. London: Tate Publishing, 2015.
Copyright
© Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York