Dallas museum acquires Pollock sculpture

Jackson Pollock - SpatialSite - Dallas Museum of artThe Dallas Museum of Art has acquired a sculpture by Jackson Pollock, one of only six still in existence. (AP Photo) PHOTO BY AP

Posted By: Bill West March 5, 2016

DALLAS — The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired a sculpture by Jackson Pollock, one of only six still in existence.

The museum announced the acquisition Friday, as its exhibition focusing on Pollock’s lesser-known “black paintings” enters its final weeks.

The abstract sculpture is currently on display as part of the exhibit, titled “Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots.” The exhibit opened in November. It’s on view through March 20.

Primarily known for his “drip” paintings, Pollock produced more than a dozen sculptures, but many were lost or destroyed by the artist.

The sculpture acquired by the Dallas museum was created in 1956, just weeks before Pollock died at 44.

With the acquisition, the museum now has four works by Pollock, including the painting “Cathedral.”
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The founder and director of several art and sculpture related marketing companies along with their companion websites. Bill West is all about Art, Sculpture. Music, Architecture, Technology and items that move like cars and all motion related cool - all things Spatial. Bill West first became involved in the visual communications industry in 1972. Starting with a Craft store, then moving into commercial and fine arts store and both wholesale and retail as well as publishing our own 300 page catalog. That morphed in as gallery and large custom picture frame operation. Soon after that we ventured into drafting and engineering supply company and large scale photo reprographics services operation with complete large format color lab! Next came a Computer graphics systems integration company. Selling both cad/cam systems and micro-computer design cad systems which integrated AutoCad and 3D visualization programs to the PC. Always a forward thinker, Bill can spot market changes in the making and is good at positioning companies to benefit from that eventuality. A good example of this seeming clairvoyance is the way he jumped on the internet in 1993. By 1995 he had created a respected internet marketing business catering to the visual arts community.

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