id: 149947
accession number: 1980.180
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.180
updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:45.263000
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: 227 Abstract Expressionism
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright: © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America, 20th century
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: 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, (28 November - 16 December 1950), no cat.', 'opening_date': '1950-11-28T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Paris, Studio Paul Facchetti, Jackson Pollock 1948-1951 (7-31 March 1952).', 'opening_date': '1952-03-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Object and Image in Modern Art and Poetry (30 April - 14 June 1954), no. 27.', 'opening_date': '1954-04-30T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Sao Paulo, Brazil, Museo de Arte Moderna, Pollock (1957), no. 19.', 'opening_date': '1957-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Basel, Kunsthalle, The New American Painting (19 April - 26 May 1958), no. 18; traveled to Hamburg, Kunstverein, 19 July - 17 August 1958; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council); possibly traveled to Milan, Galleria civica d'arte moderna (1-29 June 1958); Berlin, Hochscule fur Bildende Kunst (1 September - 1 October 1958); Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (17 October - 24 November 1958); Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts (6 December 1958 - 4 January 1959); London, Tate Gallery (24 February - 23 March 1959); New York, Museum of Modern Art (28 May - 8 September, 1959)", 'opening_date': '1958-04-19T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Paris, Musée National D'Art Moderne, Jackson Pollock and the New American Painting (16 January - 15 February 1959), no. 16; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).", 'opening_date': '1959-01-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Museum of Modern Art, Recent Acquisitions (1959-1960).', 'opening_date': '1959-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno, First International Modern Art Exhibition (1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Museum of Modern Art, Painting and Sculpture and Graphic Art from the Museum Collection (1962-3).', 'opening_date': '1962-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Organized by Museum of Modern Art, New York, Two Decades of Amercian Painting, selected by Waldo Rasmussen: shown at: Japan, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Oct 15-November 27, 1966; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, December 10, 1966-January 22, 1967; India, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, March 28-April 15, 1967; Australia, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, June 6-July 9, 1967; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, July 17-August 13, 1967', 'opening_date': '1966-10-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'London, Tate Gallery, The Art of the Real: An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968 (24 April - 1 June 1969), p. 54, cat. no. 37, ill. p. 16; organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (International Council).', 'opening_date': '1969-04-24T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Spirit of Surrealism (3 October - 25 November 1979), no. 94.', 'opening_date': '1979-10-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review for 1980 (1981), no. 106.', 'opening_date': '1981-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, September 16-November 8, 1987, cat. no. 42, p. 131. repr., color pl. VIII, p. 81.', 'opening_date': '1987-09-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/21/2005 - 09/11/2005); "CMA Highlights"', 'opening_date': '2005-06-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art" no. 91, p. 121, color repr. p. 100.', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
date: 1980-
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Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss, 1957), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1957-1980
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Walter [1919-2007] and Molly Bareiss [1920-2006], Greenwich, CT
date: 1950-1957
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(Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss)
date: 1950
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
"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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Pollock, Jackson, Francis V. O'Connor, and Eugene Victor Thaw. Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
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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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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
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
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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