Untitled (Bald Woman with Skeleton)
Jackson Pollock, American, 1912 - 1956
about 1938-1941
Oil on smooth side of Masonite attached to stretcher
Overall: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Frame: 25 1/2 × 29 5/8 × 1 7/8 in. (64.8 × 75.2 × 4.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisitions Fund
2006.93
Geography/Culture
North America, United States
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Classification
Painting
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
ARTH 16, LACS 48, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
ARTH 71, The “American Century”: Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Spring 2012
LATS 41, Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts, Douglas Moody, Spring 2012
Exhibition History
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, February 14-March 14, 2020; September 3, 2020-January 31, 2021.
Translating Revolution: U.S. Artists Interpret Mexican Muralism, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois, February 12-August 1, 2010.
Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Friends-Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-June 17, 2012; Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, New York, August 2-October 27, 2012.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 27, 2007-May 8, 2007.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Publication History
Pinacotheque de Paris; Mickie Klein, Stephen Polcari, Marc Restellini, William Rubin, Jackson Pollock: Et Le Chamanisme, Paris, FRANCE: 28, Place de la Madeleine 76008 Paris, 2008, 266 pp., color ills. pp. 122-127.
Mary K. Coffey, Sharon Lorenzo, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Stephen Polcari, Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. p. x.
Edoardo Piersensini, La scienza e l'informe in America (1929-1956), Pacini Editore, Pisa Ospedaletto, 2013: ill. p. 234.
Brian P. Kennedy, Pollock and Dartmouth: A Visual Encounter, Hood Museum of Art Quarterly, Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College, Spring 2007, p.6, ill.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Building on Dartmouth's Historic American Collections: Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions since 1985, The Magazine Antiques, November 2007, New York: Brant Publications, color ill. p. 146.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 106-107, no. 81.
Barbara Haskell, Vida Americana, Mexican Muralist Remake American Art, 1925-1945, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020, ill. p. 79, no. 32.
Provenance
Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2006.
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