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Apparently only Pollock’s family called him Jack[10], and he signed at least one letter ‘Jacks’[11]. In 1930, Pollock dropped his first name, Paul. Years later his wife, Lee Krasner, would refer to him, even in his presence, as Pollock.

McCoy was the birth name of Jackson’s father, LeRoy. After the death of LeRoy’s parents, in 1897, he was taken care of by a family named Pollock. Ten days before his twenty-first birthday LeRoy was adopted by the Pollocks. He then took on the name Pollock. Later he asked a lawyer to have his name changed back to McCoy, but doing so would have been too expensive[12].

Composition with Pouring II, 1943. Oil on canvas, 64.7 × 56.2 cm, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

Male and Female, 1942. Oil on canvas, 184.4 × 124.5 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.