“It [the drip-paintings of Jackson Pollock ] was original, and it was beautiful, and it was new, and it was saying the most that could be said in painting up to that point - and it really drew me in. I was in awe of it, and I wanted to get at why.”

remembering November 1950, when Greenberg escorted her to a show of Pollock's work at the Betty Parsons Gallery
1970s - 1980s, interview with Deborah Salomon in 'New York Times', 1989

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