Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural

At Guggenheim Exhibitions, *Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural* considers the making and afterlife of Pollock’s landmark 1943–44 painting, created for a Manhattan townhouse and tied to the city’s role in shaping postwar American art. The presentation tracks how the work moved through private rooms, institutional care, and public display, making its history part of its meaning. In New York, Pollock’s “Mural” still reads as a pivot point, when scale and gesture began to overtake narrative as the main subject.