{"data":{"id":"2634","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2634,"topgoose_id":6642,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2634,"title":"Number 27, 1950","display_artist_text":"Jackson Pollock","display_date":"1950","accession_number":"53.12","dimensions":"Overall: 49 1/16 × 106 1/16 in. (124.6 × 269.4 cm)","medium":"Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJackson Pollock, \u003cem\u003eNumber 27, 1950\u003c/em\u003e, 1950. Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas, overall: 49 1/16 × 106 1/16 in. (124.6 × 269.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 53.12. © The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eThe intricate skeins of paint in \u003ci\u003eNumber 27, 1950\u003c/i\u003e record Jackson Pollock’s movements as he dripped, poured, and flung ordinary house paint onto a large, unstretched canvas tacked to the floor. There is an extraordinary variety of marks in the painting: black background puddles are covered by lyrical lines of ochre and pink, as well as a calligraphic thicket of white, bronze, and silver paint. Pollock’s gestural marks dissolve all discrete and figurative elements into an all-over composition that evenly covers the entire surface of the canvas. Discussing his unprecedented technique, Pollock remarked: “On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be \u003ci\u003ein\u003c/i\u003e the painting.” His emphasis on spontaneity, and the idea that a work revealed itself to the artist in the process of its creation, helped elevate the act of painting to a level of importance equal to that of the finished picture. This shift, a decisive one in the history of art, would profoundly influence scores of subsequent artists.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Large abstract painting with energetic drips and splatters of white, gray, yellow, black, and pink paint.","alt_text":"A dense frenzy of paint splatters in black, gray, white, and muted pink and yellow.","visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:05:28.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-03-31T06:00:09.439-04:00","images":[{"id":94495,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2634/53_12_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"1039","type":"artist"}]}}}}