Donald Wigal - Jackson Pollock: Veiling the Image

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Donald Wigal

Jackson Pollock

Veiling the Image

Acknowledgement

The author acknowledges Ruth Kligman; Athos Zacharius; the ArtChroniclesoftheSmithsonian; Jerry Saltz, VillageVoice art critic; photographer Robin Holland; artists James Cullina of ArtSleuth, Bob Stanley, Kathy Segall, and Bill Rabinovitch; authors Carmel Reingold, James Robert Parish, George Sullivan, Susan Waggoner, and William Kuhns; agents Stephany Evans, Elaina Zucker, Robert Markel; Barlow Hartman and Mercedes Ruehl; James Yohe of Ameringer/Yohe/FineArt; Tina Dickey, editor of the HansHofmannCatalogueRaisonn; Maggie Seildon of JasonMcCoyGallery; Cheryl Orlick of the Albright-KnoxArtGallery; Bradley D. Cook of IndianaUniversityArchives; Jennifer Ickes of the NewOrleansMuseumofArt; Isabelle Dervaux, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, NationalAcademyMuseum; Verity Hawson, Lillian Kiesler, Cornelia Sontag, Brangre Mardel, and Eliane de Srsin of ParkstonePress; for research support, Bro. Frank ODonnell, Edie LaGuardia Hansen, Dr. Mark Cooper and Gene Carney; Vera Haldy for German translation; Herbert Verbesey and Gerard Sullivan for the Latin dedication; Antonio Bautista, Michael Morris; Cheryl Murray of EntertainmentLawDigest; also, AlternativeResearch for on-line research; Richart Taylor and his Jackson Pollock center at the University of Oregon.

Thanks to Catherine OReilly for her dedication, generosity, meticulous and expert editorial input on this and a dozen books over the past 25 years.

Dedication

I dedicate this work to these colleagues with whom I share a common bond. They generously made my work this past year possible: Tom Brenn, Paul Cibrowski, Joe Clark, Richard Csarny, Jim Cullina, Gene Carney, Jim DeVito, Joe Fagan, Bill Gannon, Brian Griffin, Bob Higdon, John Kane, Mel Kubander, Joe LaSala, Joe Manzo, Joe Maurer, Charlie Miller, Bob Moriarty, SM, Frank ODonnell, SM, Andy Oravets, Frank Poliafico, Bob Schult, Bruce Segall, Rhett Segall, John Spellman, Brian Trick, Herb Verbesey, Joe Wessling, Ken White, and Jim Wolf. Gestascumsociisresmeminissejuvat. (It delights me to remember all the things we shared together).

Donald Wigal

Manhattan, 2005

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