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“It is just a matter of time and work now for me to have that knowledge a part of me. A good seventy years more and I’ll make a good artist.”[1]

Age 20

Each of the four sections of this book refers to a span of at least ten years. Each subsection, usually covering one year, opens by noting historical events relative at least indirectly to Pollock, or offers some significant backdrop to his life. Events named within that year are not necessarily presented here in strict chronological order. This book should not be relied on for trying to create a strict chronology of details.

Although several interviews and over twenty biographies of Pollock were referred to while researching this work, when referring to ‘Pollock’s biographers’ without specific names, the reference is to the extensive work of Naifeh & Smith. Likewise, ‘de Kooning’s biographers’ always refer to Stevens & Swan. ‘Peggy Guggenheim’s biographer’ always refers to Mary V. Dearborn.

Untitled (Self-portrait), 1931–1935. Oil on gesso on canvas, mounted on fibreboard, 18.4 × 13.3 cm, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York.