In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned her newest protégé, the thirty-one-year-old Jackson Pollock, to paint a mural for the entrance hall of her apartment in a townhouse on East Sixty-first Street.

After a near-decade long world tour, the Jackson Pollock oil painting simply known as “Mural” is back in Iowa City and will return to public display later this month. Lauren Lessing, director of the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. IOWA CITY — Just in time for the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s long-awaited reopening on ...

In 1943 Jackson Pollock created what would be his largest-ever painting: Mural. Although Pollock was not yet consistently working with canvases on the floor—pouring and dripping paint from all sides, ...

Like the rest of the University of Iowa Museum of Art's expansive collection since the devastating flood of 2008, its Jackson Pollock 'Mural” has been in a nomadic state for years. The internationally ...

The idea has once again arisen to sell University of Iowa’s Jackson Pollock masterpiece “Mural” (1943), but this time it’s not to pay for flood damage to the University’s museum. Representative Scott ...

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As part of its regular Thursdays at the Figge programming, the University of Iowa Museum of Art Interim Director Pamela White will give a short informal talk about the Jackson Pollock masterpiece ...

David Anfam, leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, is curating a touring exhibition of Jackson Pollock’s Mural (1943, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City) following its conservation and ...

"[Jackson] Pollock would often begin with some sort of figurative device to which he would then respond—and eventually bury under layers of paint," says Sue Taylor, an art historian at Portland State ...

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