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The Myth of the Artist Cowboy
Birth

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The year Jackson Pollock was born was the year Democrat Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) became the U. S. president. However, the policies of the next Democratic president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945), would most directly influence Pollock and the art world.

Coincidentally, catastrophic maritime disasters fell in both the year of Pollock’s birth and the year of his death. The former tragedy was the sinking of the S. S. Titanic in 1912 during her maiden voyage to New York City; the latter was the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956.

The major news story of the year 1912 was undoubtedly the sinking of the S. S. Titanic during her maiden voyage. In other news, Arizona and New Mexico became states that year. However, the events of 1912 which would influence Pollock most directly included the publishing of C. G. Jung’s The Theory of Psychoanalysis, and the popularity of works by Picasso, such as that year’s The Violin.

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