Jackson Pollock administered by the Stony Brook Foundation, a nonprofit affiliate of Stony Brook University. Regular tours of the house and studio occur from May through October. Museum links Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation. Regarded as reclusive, he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. In 1945,
Pradip Mukherjee (artist) Pradip Mukherjee (artist) Pradip Mukherjee (born August 22, 1953) is an Indian artist of phad painting, a form of popular folk painting of Rajasthan. He was born on August 22, 1953 in Jaipur in the famous Mukherjee family of Jaipur. His parents were senior officials in the Indian government. He was raised in a Jain family in Kolkata. Since childhood, he had been interested in sketching and painting. When he was eleven, he painted a wall painting for a marriage ceremony in Bikaner. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Jaipur to live with his parents. Unable to adjust