Where can you see Jackson Pollock in Amsterdam?

At the Stedelijk Museum: Reflection of the Big Dipper. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Jackson Pollock's most famous work in Amsterdam?

Reflection of the Big Dipper, of 1947, at the Stedelijk Museum. Skeins and drips of paint laid on the canvas from above, from the year he began to pour.

When and where was Jackson Pollock born?

On 28 January 1912, at Cody, Wyoming. Jackson Pollock died on 11 August 1956, at Springs, East Hampton, New York, aged about 44.

What is Jackson Pollock known for?

Reflection of the Big Dipper, of 1947, is in the Stedelijk. Jackson Pollock was an American painter, of Abstract Expressionism.

Painter, 1912 to 1956

Jackson Pollock

In 1947 Pollock began laying his canvases on the floor and pouring paint on to them. The Stedelijk has one of the first, Reflection of the Big Dipper.

Born: 1912, Cody, Wyoming
Died: 1956, Springs, East Hampton, New York
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
In Amsterdam: 1 work in 1 museum

Where to see Jackson Pollock in Amsterdam

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Stedelijk Museum1 work

Reflection of the Big Dipper
1947
Skeins and drips of paint laid on the canvas from above, from the year he began to pour.

The life of Jackson Pollock

Pollock was born in Wyoming in 1912, grew up in the West and came to New York at eighteen. He drank, struggled and painted in the manner of others until the collector Peggy Guggenheim gave him a contract in 1943. Two years later he and his wife, the painter Lee Krasner, moved to a farmhouse at Springs, near East Hampton.

The poured paintings of the next few years were unlike anything seen before: no centre, no edge, no brush. Life magazine asked in 1949 whether he was the greatest living painter in the United States. By 1951 he had stopped, and in August 1956 he died when he crashed his car a mile from the house. His works are still under copyright and are not pictured here.

What to know

Reflection of the Big Dipper, of 1947, is in the Stedelijk

Born: 28 January 1912, Cody, Wyoming
Died: 11 August 1956, Springs, East Hampton, New York

Jackson Pollock: common questions

Where can you see Jackson Pollock in Amsterdam?: At the Stedelijk Museum: Reflection of the Big Dipper. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Jackson Pollock's most famous work in Amsterdam?: Reflection of the Big Dipper, of 1947, at the Stedelijk Museum. Skeins and drips of paint laid on the canvas from above, from the year he began to pour.
When and where was Jackson Pollock born?: On 28 January 1912, at Cody, Wyoming. Jackson Pollock died on 11 August 1956, at Springs, East Hampton, New York, aged about 44.
What is Jackson Pollock known for?: Reflection of the Big Dipper, of 1947, is in the Stedelijk. Jackson Pollock was an American painter, of Abstract Expressionism.