Jackson Pollock, the master of Abstract Expressionism, reached an endgame with
his groundbreaking drip paintings in 1950, and then experimented with a new technique, akin to drawing, of pouring thinned black enamel onto unprimed cotton duck.
The collection's masterworks of Abstract Expressionism include Jackson Pollock's Number 8, 1949, an exemplary «
drip»
painting, and Willem de Kooning's Marilyn Monroe (1954), the only named figure in the artist's
groundbreaking Woman series.