Who the *$&% Is Jackson Pollock?
Pollock painting (3 of 5 photographs) By Hans Namuth (1915-1990)Gelatin silver prints, 1950 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; gift of the estate of Hans Namuth
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ho the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?� is a 2006 documentary following a woman named Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck driver from California, who purchased a painting from a thrift shop for $5, only later to find out that it may be a Jackson Pollock painting. She had no clue at the time who Jackson Pollock was, hence the name of the film. According to an interview from the film, Horton purchased the painting from a California thrift shop as a gift for a friend who was feeling depressed. Horton thought the bright colors were cheery, but when the dinner-table-sized painting proved too large to fit into her friend’s trailer, Horton set it out among other 16
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