Jackson Pollock best expressed his relationship with nature in a 1956 interview: “My concern is with the rhythms of nature….the way the ocean moves….The ocean is what the expanse of the West was for me…I work from the inside out, like nature”. In context of this candid admission, the sublime and chaotic expression of nature can be found in Pollock’s oeuvre in the most minute and obvious of fashions. From the turbulent, over-modeled realistic landscapes of the 1930s to the lyrical, unanchored masses of the late 1940s and 1950s, Pollock’s art was in great part based upon his relationship to the landscape surrounding him with over 40% of his work directly based on landscape. Unfortunately the development of Pollock’s mature technical style and the resulting meteoric rise to fame overshadowed his equally important contributions to 20th century landscape painting.

Pollock's grave, Green River Cemetary, New York