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Pollock’s parents were originally from Iowa, the state just West of Jackson’s birth state of Wyoming. They were Presbyterians of Scottish and Irish origin, their ancestors had been Quakers, but they did not indoctrinate their children into any religion. Apparently none of the Pollock boys could remember whether Jackson had been baptised. Updike reminded his readers that Quakers don’t baptise.

In a 1929 letter to Charles and Frank, Jackson confessed he had “dropped religion for the present,” even though the year before he had been deeply impressed with Theosophy. Stories from the Christian Gospels would appear in only a few of Jackson’s drawings, which mainly reflected his studies of classic artists, including El Greco.

The fact that Jackson had not been baptised would become an issue at the time of his marriage. However, it was he, not his wife, Lee Krasner, who wanted to have a church wedding. Lee had been raised in the Jewish faith.