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Number 5, 1950

1950

Jackson Pollock

(American, 1912–1956)

America, 20th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 138 x 102 x 5 cm (54 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 136.5 x 99.1 cm (53 3/4 x 39 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1980.180

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227 Abstract Expressionism

Did you know?

Pollock was married to Lee Krasner, whose work is also exhibited in this gallery.

Description

Notoriously nicknamed "Jack the Dripper" by Time magazine, Pollock pioneered the technique of flinging pigment from store-bought cans of paint onto canvas placed flat on the floor. Filled with intricate webs of lines and intermingled spatters, paintings such as Number 5, 1950 are unusually direct records of the artist's moving body and hand gestures.

Provenance

1980-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

1957-1980

Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss, 1957), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1950-1957

Walter [1919-2007] and Molly Bareiss [1920-2006], Greenwich, CT

1950

(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss)

Citations

"Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions January 1, 1957 through December 31, 1957," The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 25.4 (July 1958): 3-24.

Pollock, Jackson, Francis V. O'Connor, and Eugene Victor Thaw. Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Betty Parsons Gallery, Sales and Purchases: Sales Invoices, Barc-Bart, 1950-1973, Box 25, Folder 29, frame 3, Archives of American Art, New York, NY

Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Has Purchased a Major Work by Jackson Pollock,” January 6, 1981, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. Reproduced: P. 81, pl. VIII; Mentioned and reproduced: P. 132, no. 42

Donley, Gregory M., "Geometric Means", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7 archive.org

Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. Reproduced: p. 146 - 147

Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. "Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art." CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87. Mentioned: p.86

Exhibition history

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, (28 November - 16 December 1950), no cat.

Paris, Studio Paul Facchetti, Jackson Pollock 1948-1951 (7-31 March 1952).

New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Object and Image in Modern Art and Poetry (30 April - 14 June 1954), no. 27.

Sao Paulo, Brazil, Museo de Arte Moderna, Pollock (1957), no. 19.

Basel, Kunsthalle, The New American Painting (19 April - 26 May 1958), no. 18; traveled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, 19 July - 17 August 1958; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council); possibly traveled to Milan, Galleria civica d'arte moderna (1-29 June 1958); Berlin, Hochscule fur Bildende Kunst (1 September - 1 October 1958); Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (17 October - 24 November 1958); Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts (6 December 1958 - 4 January 1959); London, Tate Gallery (24 February - 23 March 1959); New York, Museum of Modern Art (28 May - 8 September, 1959)

Paris, Musée National D'Art Moderne, Jackson Pollock and the New American Painting (16 January - 15 February 1959), no. 16; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions (1959-1960).

Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno, First International Modern Art Exhibition (1960).

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture and Graphic Art from the Museum Collection (1962-3).

Organized by Museum of Modern Art, New York, Two Decades of Amercian Painting, selected by Waldo Rasmussen: shown at: Japan, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Oct 15-November 27, 1966; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, December 10, 1966-January 22, 1967; India, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, March 28-April 15, 1967; Australia, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, June 6-July 9, 1967; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, July 17-August 13, 1967

London, Tate Gallery, The Art of the Real: An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968 (24 April - 1 June 1969), p. 54, cat. no. 37, ill. p. 16; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).

Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Spirit of Surrealism (3 October - 25 November 1979), no. 94.

Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review for 1980 (1981), no. 106.

Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, September 16-November 8, 1987, cat. no. 42, p. 131. repr., color pl. VIII, p. 81.

The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/21/2005 - 09/11/2005); "CMA Highlights"

MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art" no. 91, p. 121, color repr. p. 100.

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).

The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

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