MARY K. COFFEY is associate professor of art history, Dartmouth College. SHARON LORENZO is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. LISA MINTZ MESSINGER is associate curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. STEPHEN POLCARI is professor of art history, Chapman University.
The Hood's Men of Fire: Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock,
organized by Sarah Powers of the Hood with Pollock expert Helen
Harrison, reveals that many of the pictorial strategies employed by
Pollock in his celebrated monumental canvases of the late 1940s to
early 1950s can be traced to his intensely charged easel-size
paintings from the brief period, 1938-41, when this
quintessentially American artist was haunted by Orozco's macabre
visions of skeletons and ritual sacrifice."-- "Wall Street
Journal"
The Hood's Men of Fire: Jos Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock,
organized by Sarah Powers of the Hood with Pollock expert Helen
Harrison, reveals that many of the pictorial strategies employed by
Pollock in his celebrated monumental canvases of the late 1940s to
early 1950s can be traced to his intensely charged easel-size
paintings from the brief period, 1938-41, when this
quintessentially American artist was haunted by Orozco's macabre
visions of skeletons and ritual sacrifice. "Wall Street
Journal""
Wall Street Journal"
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