Four and a half years ago, Smithsonian magazine offered what was then the latest theory on the genesis of “Mural,” the epic Jackson Pollock painting that went on view at the J.

"Mural" flung Jackson Pollock from obscurity to the world stage. Beginning Tuesday, the world will see his enormous breakthrough canvas lighter, brighter and chattier than ever. That's when it ...

Jackson Pollock's 1943 painting "Mural" arrives at the Getty for conservation as conservators look on. Jackson Pollock is photographed with his 1943 painting, "Mural," at Vogue Studios in 1947.

Jackson Pollock’s “Mural,” the 20-foot-wide painting that catapulted the artist into the spotlight, brought audacious new scale and experimentation to Abstract Expressionism, and changed the ...

Hed: Two artists live large in Mural: Jackson Pollock/Katharina Grosse, a new Museum of Fine Arts’ exhibit Subhed: See one of the most important paintings of the 20th Century on its first ...

The most expensive piece of art to visit Sioux City, “Mural,” by American artist Jackson Pollock in 1943, will soon be leaving the Sioux City Art Center. Museum staff discuss ...

A section of Jackson Pollock's massive “Mural,” which is owned by the University of Iowa and insured for $140 million. Recent research at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has dispelled ...

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956); “Mural,” 1943; medium: oil and casein on canvas. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959. Reproduced with permission from ...

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Stare long enough at Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” and you’ll swear there are things there he had no intention of painting. Near the right hand corner, for example, you can make out what looks ...

The UIMA will debut the documentary, “Jackson Pollock’s Mural: The Story of a Modern Masterpiece,” at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 4 at FilmScene, at 118 E. College St., in Iowa City.

Jackson Pollock’s mammoth 1943 painting “Mural” — nearly 8 feet high, 20 feet wide and covered edge-to-edge with rhythmic, Matisse-like linear arabesques, muscular abstract shapes and ...