Episode 4: Jackson Pollock Inc.
Death of an Artist
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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1945. East Hampton. Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock start a new life in a farmhouse 100 miles east of New York City.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin In the winter of 1945, Lee and Jackson found themselves about a hundred miles east of New York City. |
| 0:24.0 | It was freezing cold. |
| 0:26.0 | It came in a rainstorm. |
| 0:28.0 | They had a borrowed delivery wagon with all their stuff in it. |
| 0:31.0 | What were they thinking? |
| 0:35.0 | Standing outside an old lapidated farmhouse, they pulled on the door. |
| 0:40.0 | It didn't budge. |
| 0:42.0 | This was meant to be their new home. |
| 0:44.0 | They had forgotten to pick up the key from the realtor so they had to break in. |
| 0:48.0 | This is Art Hist historian Helen Harrison. |
| 0:54.0 | I sat down with her at this very farmhouse |
| 0:57.0 | Lee and Jackson moved into almost 80 years ago. |
| 1:01.0 | Helen looked after it for over three decades. |
| 1:05.0 | The house is in the hamlet of springs in the Hamptons. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, that Hamptons. |
| 1:11.0 | The one that today is dotted with millionaire mansions. |
| 1:14.0 | Madonna has one, so do Jay-Z and Beyonce. |
| 1:18.0 | But when Lee and Jackson arrived in 1945, it looked very different. |
| 1:24.0 | Definitely not the quote unquote Hamptons. |
| 1:29.0 | It was a very quiet backwater. |
| 1:32.0 | Very rural community, farmers and fisherfolk, mainly dairy farms, |
| 1:37.6 | cornfields, and fishing shacks. |
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