The Key

The Key

Jackson Pollock American, 1912-1956

1946

On view — Gallery 395 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Key belongs to Jackson Pollock’s Accabonac Creek series, named for a stream near the East Hampton property that he and his wife, the painter Lee Krasner, purchased in late 1945. Marking a crucial moment in his evolution as an artist, this quasi-Surrealist painting was created on the floor of an…

Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
Unframed: 149.8 × 208.3 cm (59 × 82 1/16 in.); 149.9 × 208.3 cm (59 × 82 in.)
Origin
United States

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