Jackson Pollock of Lee Krasner. The movie was the project of Ed Harris, who portrayed Pollock. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Harris himself painted the works seen in the film. The Pollock-Krasner Foundation did not authorize or collaborate with any production. In September 2009, the art historian Henry Adams claimed in "Smithsonian" magazine that Pollock had written his name in his famous painting "Mural" (1943). The painting is now insured for $140 million. In 2011, the Republican Iowa State Representative Scott Raecker introduced a bill to force the sale of the artwork, held by the University of
Robert L. Pollock Robert L. Pollock Robert L. Pollock is an editorial writer and Wall Street Journal editorial board member. Robert Pollock was born in Buffalo, New York. He studied at Yale. Pollock joined the "Wall Street Journal Europe" in Brussels as an editorial page writer in 1995. He moved to "The Wall Street Journal"'s headquarters in New York City in 2000 as an assistant features editor. In 2002 Pollock became an editorial writer and in 2005 he joined the Editorial Board. From 2007-2012 he was the Journal's editorial features (op-ed) editor. Pollock was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize in 2003 for