Untitled (Western Scene)

Jackson Pollock · c. 1930-33

You're looking at Untitled (Western Scene) — a painting by the American artist Jackson Pollock, around nineteen thirty to nineteen thirty-three. Pollock was married to Lee Krasner — who also hangs in this museum. The piece is oil and crayon on wooden cigar box, about 16 by 23 centimeters. In the picture, look for the war.

Medium Oil and crayon on wooden cigar box · Dimensions 6 1/2 × 9 1/8 × 2 3/4" (16.5 × 23.2 × 7 cm) · Credit Gift of Edwin A. Bergman

Hanging beside it in Gallery 509: Rock, Bakers Beach, San Francisco, California, Evening Storm, Schoodic, Maine

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Homestead, Drawing of Scene 12: The Dream: The Belies, The Great Bear, Phoebus, The Twin Stars, Saturn of the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune), Building the Palace Of Cortez, Aerial Incendiary Bombs, Koreatown, Los Angeles from the series Fish Story, Gladiators

More by Jackson Pollock here: One: Number 31, 1950, Number 1A, 1948, Echo: Number 25, 1951, Landscape with Steer, The She-Wolf