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Harry Jackson
In 1924, the world renowned painter/sculptor Harry Jackson was born into a mafia family ruled by Al Capone in his very own bullet blasted, blood spattered Chicago. In 1938, fourteen year old Harry Jackson's brothel Boss Grandma was going to kill him - so Harry Jackson escaped to cowboy in the Rocky Mountains near Cody Wyoming for near on four years. Then Harry Jackson fought in the Pacific with the Marines at Tarawa, Roi-Namur and Saipan-Tinian - after being wounded and decorated Harry Jackson became the youngest Marine Corps Combat Artist - and the best according to the Marine Corps Commandant and New Yorker magazine (Nov. 20, 1943 issue).
Harry Jackson's art is in New York's Metropolitan Museum, Washington DC's Smithsonian, the Vatican and in Queen Elizabeth II's private collection-Some of Harry Jackson's closest friends included fellow cowboy Cal Todd, the Cody Wyoming born abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, Marine Colonel Evans F. Carlson of "Carlson's" deadly Raider Battalion, and last, but not least, John "Duke" Wayne...
| White Figure |
White Figure 1948, oil enamel, collage on linen 37" x 55.75" erupted onto canvas a few days after Harry Jackson and Jackson Pollock first met and talked together on 11 October 1948 at the Pollock/Krasner farmhouse in The Springs, East Hampton, New York. White Figure shot forth like a volcano out of Harry's too long frozen infant and childhood traumas.
Harry didn't even let his wife, Grace, Pollock, Lee Krasner or Willem DeKooning see it. It was far too private. Harry waited four decades to show his White Figure painting created in 1948, in the major retrospective of his artwork given him in 1987 at the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie, Wyoming. |
| Posted by: Ric Heasler On Tue 13 Mar 2007 At 03:05 PM |
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