Venues:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, January 29–April 10, 2005.

Curator:
Susan Davidson.

Artist:
Jackson Pollock.

Exhibition description:
This retrospective exhibition presented fifty-one works from international collections from all periods of Pollock's work, from his figurative, strongly European-influenced beginnings through to the abstract compositions of his later years. Peggy Guggenheim launched Pollock's career in the 1940s; she offered her patronage and organized four solo exhibitions at her New York gallery, Art of This Century. During his career, Pollock produced approximately seven hundred works on paper in a variety of traditional drawing media – pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, collage and, toward the end of his life, poured enamel. At the time of his first one-man exhibition at Art of This Century in November 1943 Pollock chose to exhibit both paintings and drawings. This decision was due in part for practical reasons, since smaller works sold more easily. However the primary motivation was Pollock's conviction that his paintings on canvas and his works on paper deserved equal attention as expressions of his artistic aims.

Catalogue:
Davidson, Susan. No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper. New York: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2005.

Catalogue in English, includes foreword by Tessen von Heydebreck (Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Deutsche Bank AG), preface and acknowledgements by Thomas Krens (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), and essays by Susan Davidson, Dr. David Anfam and Margaret Holben Ellis. Catalogue also contains an exhibition history of the works on paper and a selected bibliography.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2005 .02, GUGG PGC 2005 .03.