Untitled
Jackson Pollock
American, 1912–1956
c. 1943–46
A two-color screenprint by Jackson Pollock that translates his energetic, biomorphic painting gestures into flat, interlocking shapes on paper as an experiment in rhythm, negative space, and the transfer of spontaneous mark-making through printmaking.
A compact band of mustard-yellow, looping and serrated forms floats near the top of a warm terracotta field, their abrupt edges and curled lines reading like a fossilized movement above a broad, quiet expanse, punctuated by a few tiny black smudges.
Produced in Pollock’s experimental phase, this print shows how mid‑century artists used printmaking to test and multiply abstract motifs and compositional ideas that helped shape postwar abstraction and blurred boundaries between painting and graphic reproduction.
Medium
Screenprint with screenprint on verso
Dimensions
composition (.a): 5 1/2 x 8 7/16" (14 x 21.5 cm); composition (.b, irreg.): 8 7/16 x 5 1/2" (21.5 x 14 cm); sheet: 11 7/16 x 11 9/16" (29 x 29.4 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, in honor of Lily Auchincloss
Accession
49.1996.a-b
Palette
Exhibitions
