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Use your cell phone to learn more about Jackson Pollock's Mural, as well as several other
mid-century American abstract artworks featured in the Art Center's permanent collections.
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Stop 1 Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943
By Jeff Fleming, Director
Stop 2 Lee Krasner, Black and White Collage, 1953
By Jill Featherstone, Museum Education Director
Stop 3 Helen Frankenthaler, Chalk Zone, 1968
By Laura Burkhalter, Associate Curator
Stop 4 Larry Poons, Han-San Cadence, 1963
By Gilbert Vicario, Senior Curator
Stop 5 David Smith, Zig II, 1961
By Laura Burkhalter, Associate Curator
Stop 6 Stanton MacDonald-Wright, Abstraction on Spectrum (Organization 5), ca. 1914-17
By Laura Burkhalter, Associate Curator
Stop 7 Sam Francis, Summer No. 2, 1957
By Jill Featherstone, Museum Education Director
Stop 8 Morris Louis, Untitled #189, 1959
By Gilbert Vicario, Senior Curator
Stop 9 Robert Motherwell, Orange Suchard Bittra #4, 1973
By Gilbert Vicario, Senior Curator
Stop 10 Robert Motherwell, Untitled (Black and White), 1949
By Gilbert Vicario, Senior Curator
Stop 11 Kenneth Noland, Whirl, 1960
By Gilbert Vicario, Senior Curator
Stop 12 Mark Rothko, Light Over Gray, 1956
By Jill Featherstone, Museum Education Manager
Stop 13 Philip Guston, Friend - To M.F., 1978
By Jill Featherstone, Museum Education Manager
Top image: Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956)
Mural, 1943
Oil on canvas
8 ft. 1 ¼ in. x 19 ft. 10 in.
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959.6
Reproduced with permission from the University of Iowa