Creative Exchanges : Artists inJackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Address Books

Friday, Jun 9, 2023 at 4:00pm
Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
830 Springs Fireplace Road
631-324-4929

In the days before smart phones and email, people hand wrote contact information in books designed for that purpose. Telephone numbers were prefixed by two-letter abbreviations for exchanges, such as Butterfield BU, Chelsea CH, Trafalgar TR and Plaza PL.

Three such books belonging to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner have survived: two are among their papers in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art; one is owned by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center.

All three books will be on view, together with more than twenty works by artists whose names, addresses, and telephone numbers appear in them, including Thomas Hart Benton, James Brooks, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, John Graham, Paul Jenkins, Reuben Kadish, John Little, Mercedes Matter, Barnett Newman, Alfonso Ossorio, Betty Parsons, Charles Pollock and Mark Rothko.

Lenders include the Museum of Modern Art, Guild Hall Museum, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, private collections and artists’ estates.

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