id: 149947
accession number: 1980.180
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.180
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Number 5, 1950, 1950. Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956). Oil on canvas; framed: 138 x 102 x 5 cm (54 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 136.5 x 99.1 cm (53 3/4 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1980.180. © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Number 5, 1950
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creation date: 1950
creation date earliest: 1950
creation date latest: 1950
current location: 240A Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright: © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 138 x 102 x 5 cm (54 5/16 x 40 3/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 136.5 x 99.1 cm (53 3/4 x 39 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Spirit of Surrealism
opening date: 1979-10-03T04:00:00
The Spirit of Surrealism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 3-November 25, 1979).
title: Year in Review: 1980
opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).
title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960
opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00
Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).
title: CMA Highlights
opening date: 2005-06-21T00:00:00
CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
title: Landscapes by Arnold Chang: A Retrospective and Recent Acquisitions 張洪山水畫回顧展
opening date: 2025-03-08T05:00:00
Landscapes by Arnold Chang: A Retrospective and Recent Acquisitions 張洪山水畫回顧展. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-November 9, 2025).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Jackson Pollock. Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (November 28-December 16, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-11-28T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Jackson Pollock 1948-1951. Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France (March 7-31, 1952).', 'opening_date': '1952-03-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Object and Image in Modern Art and Poetry. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 30-June 14, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-04-30T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Pollock. Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "The New American Painting. Basel, Kunsthalle, (April 19-May 26, 1958); traveled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, (July 19-August 17, 1958); organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council); possibly traveled to Galleria civica d'arte moderna, Milan, Italy (June 1-29, 1958); Hochscule fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany (September 1-October 1, 1958); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (October 17-November 24, 1958); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (December 6, 1958-January 4, 1959); Tate Gallery, London, England (February 24- March 23, 1959); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (May 28-September 8, 1959).", 'opening_date': '1958-04-19T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Jackson Pollock and the New American Painting. Musée National D'Art Moderne, Paris, France (January 16-February 15, 1959); organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).", 'opening_date': '1959-01-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Recent Acquisitions. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1959–1960).', 'opening_date': '1959-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'First International Modern Art Exhibition. Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Painting and Sculpture and Graphic Art from the Museum Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1962–196\x0f3).', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Two Decades of Americian Painting, selected by Waldo Rasmussen. Organized by Museum of Modern Art, New York, shown at: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan, (October 15-November 27, 1966); National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (December 10, 1966-January 22, 1967); Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India (March 28-April 15, 1967); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (June 6-July 9, 1967); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (July 17-August 13, 1967).', 'opening_date': '1966-10-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Art of the Real: An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968. Tate Gallery, London, England. Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council) (April 24-June 1, 1969).', 'opening_date': '1969-04-24T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss)
date: 1950
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Walter [1919–2007] and Molly Bareiss [1920–2006], Greenwich, CT, given to the Museum of Modern Art, New York
date: 1950–1957
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1957–1980
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1980–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Betty Parsons Gallery, Sales and Purchases: Sales Invoices, Barc-Bart, 1950-1973, Box 25, Folder 29, frame 3, Archives of American Art, New York, NY
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Hamilton, George Heard. Object and Image in Modern Art and Poetry: An Essay and an Exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery, 30 April, 1954, through 14 June, 1954. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1954.
page number: cat. no. 27
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Hunter, Sam, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), and Bienal Internacional de São Paulo 1957). Pollock. New York: The Council, 1957.
page number: cat. no. 19
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The New American Painting, as Shown in Eight European Countries, 1958-1959. New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1959.
page number: cat. no. 18
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"Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions January 1, 1957 through December 31, 1957," The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art 25.4 (July 1958): 3–24.
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Musée national d’art moderne (France), and Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock et La Nouvelle Peinture Américaine. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1959.
page number: cat. no. 16
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Goossen, E. C.. The Art of the Real; an Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968. Great Britain. Arts Council. Catalogues. 1969. Volume 1. London: Arts Council, 1968.
page number: Mentioned: p. 54, cat. no. 37; Reproduced: p. 16
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O’Connor, Francis V. and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds. A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 89, vol. 2, no. 266
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Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.
page number: cat. no. 94
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Has Purchased a Major Work by Jackson Pollock,” January 6, 1981, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2845
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (1981): 163–219.
page number: Mentioned: no. 106, pp. 163, 199, 214; Reproduced: no. 106, p. 198
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159730
Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987.
page number: Reproduced: P. 81, pl. VIII; Mentioned and reproduced: P. 132, no. 42
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Donley, Gregory M., "Geometric Means", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 46 no. 05, May/June 2006
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 7
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-05/page/6
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry : Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned: no. 91, p. 121; Reproduced: p. 100
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Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 146 - 147
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Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. "Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art." CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87.
page number: Mentioned: p.86
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