Spanish Prison Window (formerly The Spanish Prison)

Paintings on Canvas and Panel, P1-P199

ARTISTS FIND THEIR VOICES BY BEING ABLE TO REACH BOTH DEEP WITHIN AND FAR OUTSIDE THEMSELVES. The reaching within often involves a struggle with the psychic scars and inhibitions inflicted by the artist’s upbringing and by the conventions of society. The reaching for some kind of an outside symbol...

In February 1944, just a few months after his startling debut at Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery Art of This Century, Jackson Pollock granted his first interview, set up as answers to a questionnaire in the West Coast–based Arts and Architecture magazine. Queried by an anonymous interviewer...