Announcement to a significant Pollock exhibition, a collaboration with architect Peter Blake.The two men had met two years previous. And when Pollock asked Blake to help him install his 1949 show at Betty Parsons, Blake suggested that he contribute a scale model of what he envisioned as the ideal museum for the exhibition of Pollock’s art. Blake would later write that his design — inspired by Mies van der Rohe (and described in this announcement as “A theatrical exercise using Jackson Pollock’s paintings and sculpture”) — envisioned Pollock’s paintings “suspended between the earth and the sky, and set between mirrored walls so as to extend into infinity” (No Place Like Utopia 111). The model would eventually be given to the artist, who placed it in his studio where it was visible in several of Hans Namuth’s famous photos of Pollock. The model eventually perished, though Blake authorized a reproduction in 1994. OCLC locates just two copies. Early ephemera from this legendary abstract expressionist.

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