Jackson Pollock: New Found Works

12 March–6 May 1979

Jackson Pollock, who is best known for his monumental “drip” paintings, also created other, smaller works throughout his career. This exhibition included over 100 of these works, many of which were being exhibited for the first time. Most of the objects in the exhibition were drawings, but there were also several paintings on canvas as well as small items such as bowls, copper plaques, a painted cigar box, a matchbox, and a mosaic. The three main periods of Pollock’s life were represented in the show, and were on loan from private collections and the estate of Lee Krasner Pollock, the artist’s widow. The exhibition was accompanied by several events including a film screening with Barbara Rose and gallery talks by exhibition Francis V. O’Connor, curator; Katharine L. Keefe, Curator of Collections for the Smart Museum; Thomas Crow, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and the College; Ronald Cohen, Assistant Professor in the Committee on Art and Design and the College; and Naomi Gilman, a graduate student in the Department of Art.

Curator: Francis V. O’Connor, Katharine L. Keefe, Curator of the Collections, Smart Museum of Art

The exhibition traveled to the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Collection of Fine Arts before arriving at the Smart Museum. 

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