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Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:00AM 
Jackson Pollock had a pretty rough go of it as a teenager. He didn't fit in at his Los Angeles school, where he apparently wore unusual clothes and grew out his hair. He was expelled several times for getting in trouble with the law. He wrote to his brother, telling him that, “…this so called happy part of one’s life—youth—to me is a bit of damnable hell.”
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 8:00AM
“Every good painter paints what he is.” - Jackson Pollock
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 11:11AM 
Jackson Pollock often used cigarettes to paint. And...his paintings are filled with cigarette butts, tacks, and all manner of items we might call garbage.
Monday, August 20, 2012 at 11:26AM 
The most expensive painting that ever sold in the history of art is Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948". It sold in a private sale in 2006 for a staggering 140 million dollars, exceeding the sale of Gustav Klimt's 1907 "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" by around 5 million dollars. Although Pollock enjoyed recognition during his life, he never made much money with his art. And, recognition doesn’t put food on the table.
