Abstract painting with colorful yellow, red, green, and white paint splatters and energetic drips on dark canvas.

Paintings

Number 17, 1950 / "Fireworks"

1950

Medium
Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on composition board
Dimensions
Overall: 22 3/8 × 22 1/4 in. (56.8 × 56.5 cm)
Accession number
99.59
Acquired
1999
Credit line
Gift of Mildred S. Lee
Reproduction credit
©The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Jackson Pollock, Number 17, 1950 / "Fireworks", 1950. Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on composition board, overall: 22 3/8 × 22 1/4 in. (56.8 × 56.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Mildred S. Lee 99.59. ©The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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