The artwork archives of American artist Charles Pollock (1902-1988), elder brother of Jackson Pollock, and a painter whose work spans the twentieth century . American abstract art, paintings and drawings.

Charles created social realist images during the 1930s and ’40s and supervised mural painting for the Works Progress Administration in Michigan. He taught typographical design and etching at …

Charles Pollock abandoned social realism in the 1940s, and turned to abstract expressionism and color field painting. Some attribute the shift to the influence of his famous brother Jackson, although Charles Pollock painted in a very calm and organized manner unlike Jackson's drip …

Charles Pollock was an American painter best known as the eldest brother of Jackson Pollock. Over the course of his career, Pollock’s paintings transitioned from a style informed by Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera to an ordered abstraction related to …

(1970-1983) Studies, sketches (1970-1978) Charles Pollock Archives cparchives@gmail.com Charles Pollock Archives cparchives@gmail.com

Charles Pollock (1902-1988), the oldest brother of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), who became an icon of the American abstract art movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was a fine artist in his own right.

From 1938 to 1942, Charles Pollock was Supervisor of Mural Painting and Graphic Arts for the Federal Arts Project (WPA) in Michigan. In 1945, after finishing the Fairchild Auditorium mural, he went to the desert in Arizona to draw and paint; he then broke definitively with social realist, regionalist art and began experimenting with abstraction.

Charles Pollock was the oldest and Jackson Pollock the youngest of the five sons of Stella May and Leroy Pollock. Born ten years earlier, Charles was measured, reflective, and patient, while Jackson was impulsive and mercurial.

Charles Pollock spent the last 17 years of his life in Paris. His painting entitled “Chapala 3” from 1950, has been part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice since October of 2009.

Along with the paintings, drawings, and correspondence of Charles Pollock himself, this intimate one-room exhibition also offers a cross-section of the many artists and personalities that encompassed his broad social circle.