Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

In these paintings the edges of the canvas become as structurally important as the center. Schiffer. In 1949 he had his first solo exhibition: Kenneth Noland at the Galerie Creuze in Paris.

and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio in 1978. In 1977 he was honored by a major retrospective at the Solomon R.