Jackson Pollock Bibliography | Artist's Statements and Interviews

Jackson Pollock Bibliography: Artist’s Statements and Interviews
In addition to Pollock’s own statements and interviews, several interviews with his wife, the artist Lee Krasner, are included as they provide useful information on Pollock’s life and work. how to search

"Jackson Pollock." Arts & Architecture (Los Angeles) 61, no. 2 (February 1944): 14.

Statement. In Sidney Janis, Abstract and Surrealist Art in America, 112. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1944. Reprinted in Francis V. O’Connor and Eugene V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, vol. 4, p. 234. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978.

Application for Guggenheim Fellowship, 1947. Reprinted in Francis V. O’Connor and Eugene V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, vol. 4, p. 238, D67. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978.

"My Painting." Possibilities (New York) no. 1 (winter 1947–48): 78–83.

Roueché, Berton. "Unframed Space." New Yorker 25 (August 5, 1950): 16. Interview with Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.

Letter to the Editor. Time (New York) 56, no. 24 (December 11, 1950): 10. [Pollock’s reply to "Chaos, Damn It!" Time 56, no. 21 (November 20, 1950): 70–71.]

Handwritten statements, 1950. Reprinted in Francis V. O’Connor and Eugene V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, vol. 4, p. 253, D89 and D90. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978.

Interview with William Wright, The Springs, Long Island, 1950. Broadcast on radio station WERI, Westerly, R.I., 1951. Published in Francis V. O’Connor and Eugene V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, vol. 4, pp. 248–51, D87. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978. Also in Hans Namuth, Pollock Painting, edited by Barbara Rose, n.p. New York: Agrinde Publications, 1980. Excerpts published in "The Artist Speaks: Part Six." Art in America (New York) 53, no. 4 (August–September 1965): 111.

Narration for the color film by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg, 1951. In Hans Namuth, Pollock Painting, edited by Barbara Rose, n.p. New York: Agrinde Publications, 1980.

Interview with Selden Rodman, spring 1956. In Rodman, Conversations with Artists, 76–87. New York: Devin-Adair, 1957.

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Rago, Louise. "We Interview Lee Krasner." School Arts (Worcester, Mass.) 60, no. 1 (September 1960): 31–32.

Seckler, Dorothy. Interviews with Lee Krasner: November 2, 1964; December 14, 1967; and April 11, 1968. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Glaser, Bruce. "Jackson Pollock: An Interview with Lee Krasner." Arts Magazine (New York) 41, no. 6 (April 1967): 36–39.

Du Plessix, Francine, and Cleve Gray. "Who Was Jackson Pollock?" Art in America (New York) 55, no. 3 (May–June 1967): 48–59. Interviews with Lee Krasner, Tony Smith, Betty Parsons, and Alfonso Ossorio.

Wasserman, Emily. Interview with Lee Krasner, January 9, 1968. Transcript in Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., roll 3774, frames 329–342.

Friedman, B. H. "An Interview with Lee Krasner Pollock." In Jackson Pollock: Black and White, 7–10. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1969. Reprinted in Hans Namuth, Pollock Painting, edited by Barbara Rose, n.p. New York: Agrinde Publications, 1978.

Holmes, Doloris. Interview with Lee Krasner, 1972. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Rose, Barbara. Interview with Lee Krasner, March(?) 1972. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., roll 3774, frames 344–353.

Rose, Barbara. "American Great: Lee Krasner." Vogue (New York) 159, no. 10 (June 1972): 118–21; 154.

Nemser, Cindy. "A Conversation with Lee Krasner." Arts Magazine (New York) 47, no. 6 (April 1973): 43–48.

Diamonstein, Barbaralee. Interview with Lee Krasner, February 16, 1978. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., roll 3774, frames 360–423.

Venet, Bernar. "Pollock par Lee Krasner." Art Press (Paris) no. 16 (March 1978): 10–11.

Rose, Barbara. Interview with Lee Krasner, June 27, 1978. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., roll 3774, frames 427–436.

Novak, Barbara. Interview with Lee Kranser. The WBHG New Television Workshop Videotape Archive of the Arts. Transcript in Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., roll 3774, frames 464–517.

Rose, Barbara. "Jackson Pollock at Work: An Interview with Lee Krasner." Partisan Review (New York) 47, no. 1 (1980): 82–92.

Cavaliere, Barbara. "An Interview with Lee Krasner." Flash Art (Milan) 94–95 (January–February 1980): 14–16. Transcript of a version of this in Archives of American Art, roll 3774, frame 289.

Glueck, Grace. "Scenes From a Marriage: Krasner and Pollock." Art News (New York) 80 (December 1981): 57–61.

Cannell, Michael. "An Interview with Lee Krasner." Arts Magazine 59, no. 1 (September 1984): 87–89.

Myers, John Bernard. "Naming Pictures: Conversations between Lee Krasner and John Bernard Myers." Artforum (New York) 23 (November 1984): 69–73.
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