Object number1994.9.2

Number 10, 1950

Date1950

Artist Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas, laid down on fiber board

DimensionsUnframed: 64 15/16 x 36 5/8 in. (165 x 93 cm)
Framed: 68 1/8 x 39 x 3 15/16 in. (173 x 99 x 10 cm)

Credit LineGift from the collection of Katherine Sanford Deutsch, class of 1940

On View

On view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedSigned (LR): Jackson Pollock

Catalogue raisonnéNo. 290; p. 111BibliographyO'Connor, Francis Valentine and Eugene Victor Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), Cat. No. 290, p. 111, repr. Rushing, Jackson W., Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde: A History of Cultural Pluralism (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), plate 13, repr. Nobuyuki, Okabe, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College," (Japan: Yamagata Museum of Art, 2008) Cat. no. 51, p. 106 Mundy, James, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center: Vassar College The History and Collection (New York: Prestel Publishing, 2007), p. 120, p. 121 repr.ProvenanceBetty Parsons Gallery;
Acquired by Katherine Sanford Deutsch;
Inherited by husband, Richard Deutsch, 1989

Vassar Exhibitions

Paris-New York: Modernist Painting in 19th and 20th century Masterworks from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Exhibition HistoryJapan, Shimane Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," March 7 - May 11, 2008. Cat. no. 51, p 106.

Japan, Ishibashi Museum of Art, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," May 17 - July 20, 2008. Cat. no. , p .

Japan, Yamagata Museum of Art, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," July 30 - August 31, 2008. Cat. no. , p. .

Japan. Fuchu Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," September 6 - November 3, 2008. Cat. no. , p. .

Japan, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," November 14 - December 14, 2008. Cat. , p. .

Label TextJackson Pollock was a leading figure among the generation of artists who searched for a radically new approach to art-making following the incalculable devastation of World War II. As Pollock explained in a 1951 radio interview, “The modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.” Upending conventions of easel painting, Pollock replaced brushes with sticks and other implements that he used to drip and pour house paint across unstretched canvas. Working on the floor, Pollock could approach the canvas from all sides, a practice influenced in part by seeing Navajo artists execute sand paintings. Number 10, 1950 is exceptional among Pollock’s celebrated “drip paintings” due to its vertical rather than horizontal format, and its sinuous and relatively spare passages of paint that reveal a distinctive reddish-brown ground.

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