Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural, through September 19, 2021
“Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural is a focused exhibition dedicated to the first monumental painting by American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956). Commissioned by visionary collector and dealer Peggy Guggenheim for her Manhattan home in the summer of 1943, during a pivotal moment in the evolution of Pollock’s artistic style, Mural was completed by the end of that same year. The current presentation is the first time this work has been on view in New York in more than 20 years and marks the painting’s debut at the Guggenheim Museum. Along with Mural, the exhibition features three additional works by Pollock.” — Guggenheim Museum


Lee Krasner’s Eighth Street apartment, New York, summer 1943.
Photo: Bernard Schardt, Courtesy Pollock-Krasner House and
Study Center, East Hampton, New York, Gift of Jeffrey Potter.

Photo: Herbert Matter, courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Modern Art, New York, Purchase, 1944 © 2020 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society
(ARS), New York. Digital Image ©The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York.
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural was curated by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance.
Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism, through September 19, 2021
“Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism is an exhibition that considers the diverse ways that artists in the 1960s and ’70s responded to the achievements of Abstract Expressionist painters to formulate unique approaches to sculptural practice. Knotted, Torn, Scattered features works from the Guggenheim collection by Lynda Benglis, Maren Hassinger, Robert Morris, Senga Nengudi, Richard Serra, and Tony Smith. These artists saw in postwar painting urgent questions about scale, material, and process.”— Guggenheim Museum



sequins, 31 x 12 1/8 x 16 1/2 inches (78.8 x 31.7 x 41.9 cm).
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, Mrs. Andrew P. Fuller.
©Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.



Knotted, Torn, Scattered: Sculpture after Abstract Expressionism was organized by Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator, Collections.
Title image: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Restoration Completion. Photograph by David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
Images courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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