Legacy

"In December 1956, the year after his death, Pollock was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and then another in 1967. His work has continued to be honoured on a large scale, with frequent exhibitions at both the MoMA in New York and the Tate in London. He remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century."

 

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"Now, as much as ever, people cannot stop talking about Jackson Pollock. He and abstract expressionism, for which he is a symbol, remain so vivid that he seems to be still alive, still dancing over his canvas, still trying to lead art to places it has never been. There is a sense that no one, not even post-modernists who reject everything he stands for, knows how to cut him down to size. more than 30 years after his death in 1956, at the age of 44, he remains the great presence in American art, and no one else is close."

Brendon, Michael, 1987, ART REVIEW; Divining the Legacy of Jackson Pollock, The New York Times