​- Jackson Pollock –

BY DANNY McCARTHY

An ARTIST can create one-self's character to possibly also bring-about change via the interpretation{s} found from others. - JACKSON POLLOCK, I do think - had that in-mind.-

“Jackson Pollock was proposed {for} a stamp by assistant director to the director at {the} Pollock Krasner House and Study Center Chris McNamara in September of 1993.”

“The Abstract Expressionism stamp” {was} “based on a photograph by Martha Holmes for a {LIFE} magazine {dated August 8, 1949 carrying an} article ‘Jackson Pollock, Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?.’ That photograph “introduced his challenging style and innovative technique to a national audience.” -&- “it was the first published image of the artist {Jackson Pollock] at work.”

“The Abstract Exhibitionism stamp is a full-color rendering of {Martha Homes’} rendering of Pollock in his East Hampton studio using his controversial pouring method to begin the painting now known as ‘Number 1, 1949; an early version of ‘Out of Web: Number 7,1949, is visible behind him.”

“The {then} new {33-cent} first class stamp went on sale in {mid-February} 1999.” – {from (the) Southampton Press dated January, 02 {stet}, 1949}

Cody, Wyoming-born PAUL JACKSON POLLOCK (1912 - 1956) is “regarded as the undisputed leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement.”

After marrying Lee Krasner (1908 – 1984), they left New York City in 1943 “to Long Island’s East End {to} a small homestead on one and a quarter acres overlooking Accabonac in The Springs, near East Hampton.”

{There was an exhibition at the Hecksher Museum in Huntington} “celebrating Pollock’s enduring legacy through family photographs, letters, writings, and scrapbooks from the personal papers of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.}” { from The Long Islander’s Northport Journal, August 17, 2000 A Journal of History Established in 1874}.

“Hans Namath was born in Germany in 1915.” – “The Smithsonian Institute’s Portrait Gallery includes thousands of prints of artists at work by photographer Hans Namuth. Among one is {a} 1930s portrait of abstract exhibitionist Jackson Pollack.”

Hans Namuth was arrested in 1933 for “distributing anti-Hitler pamphlets.” After his arrest, he “was spirited { stet - ? } out of the country at age 18 to Paris supporting himself {via} a variety of jobs.” “Photographer George Reisner was one of Hans Namuth’s fellow emigres who taught Namuth the craft of photography”{Namuth’s} earlier interests included art, music, and literature” – BUT – “the craft of photography sustained Hans Namuth (for) the rest of his life.}

George Reisner and Hans Namuth “worked together as photojournalists in Paris and Spain during the Spanish Civil War.” “Following a stint in the French Foreign Legion in 1941, he left Europe for the United States and joined the military intelligence service.” “His post-war classes at the New School for Social Research brought him to photography first in the fashion and the advertising worlds, and then to Jackson Pollock and the new work for which he became famous.” “Namuth remained active as a photographer until his death in 1990”

“Hans Namuth’s photographs of Jackson Pollock are probably the best known of {Hans Namuth’s} body of work.” “Namuth had particular affinity for visual artists.” “{Namuth’s} lens often focused on the new Abstract Exhibitionist School {of which one included Lee Kassner}.

The Hecksher Museum of Art had Hans Namuth’s “portrayals of {Jackson} Pollock at work as well as photographs of other icons of 20th century arts and culture.{A}mong them {were} writers John Steinbeck, Edward Albee, and John O’Hara; architects Philip Johnson and Miles Van Der Roe; and composers Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, and Stephen Sondheim.”

The “{e}xhibition of 75 photographs was originated by the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute and ran from August 19 – October 29, {2000}.” {from an article BY GEORGE WALLACE {stet} titled Marking Jackson Pollock’s Centenary that was in The Long Islander’s Northport Journal, February 02 {stet}, 2002. A Journal of History Established in 1874}.

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