Number 20

Date1949

Maker Jackson Pollock American, 1912-1956

Object number2002.66

Provenance[Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY]; Mr. and Mrs. David C. Ruttenberg, Chicago, IL; [BC Holland & Co., Chicago, IL]; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph I. Goldenberg, Chicago, IL; Private Collection, Japan; Jason McCoy, New York, NY; Jon and Mary Shirley, Medina, WA; partial and promised gift to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, Paintings, November 21 - December 10, 1949 New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University, ca. February 28 - March 23, 1950 Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan, Post-War American Painting, June 28 - August 28, 1950 New York, NY, Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, 1952 New York, NY, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Jackson Pollock, January - February 1964, cat. no. 102 Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, 27th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary Art, April 11 - May 21, 1967 Chicago, IL, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, September 8 - October 22, 1972 Pullman, WA, Washington State University, Museum of Art, "Art & Context: The '50s and '60s," September 29 - December 16, 2006 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle", May 5, 2007 - September 9, 2007 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism and Craft, Part 1, March 16, 2013 - March 16, 2014Published ReferencesO'Connor, Francis V. Thaw, Eugene V. "Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume II, Paintings, 1948 - 1955." New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978, no. 230, p. 53, illus. (b&w) Bruce, Chris et al. "Art & Context: The '50s and '60s." Pullman: Museum of Art / Washington State University, 2006, p. 28, illus. pp. 16 (det.), 29 Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. "A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, p. 33, illus. p. 32

Credit LinePartial and promised gift of Jon and Mary Shirley, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

DimensionsImage: 28 x 20 in. (71.1 x 50.8 cm) Framed: 38 x 30 x 2in.

MediumEnamel on paper mounted on Masonite