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Nov 25, 2013 · Ruth Kligman was Jackson Pollock's mistress (and survived his fatal crash), Williem de Kooning's lover, and even had a dalliance with Jasper Johns. Now, after a lifetime of brushes with...
Mar 7, 2010 · Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone and be everywhere in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time, died Monday, according to the New York Times.
Ruth Kligman, a passenger in Pollock’s Oldsmobile on the night of August 11, 1956, survived the horrific crash. Her friend, Edith Metzger, was not so fortunate. Kligman was a voluptuous and savvy aspiring painter who narrowly escaped a life of predestined normalcy in New Jersey (she left that role to her identical twin Iris).
But who was Ruth Kligman? Was she simple the woman who earned the nickname “death-car girl” from poet Frank O’Hara after being the sole survivor of the crash that ended the life of “the greatest painter” of abstract expressionist movement heralded by art critic Clement Greenberg?
Mar 1, 2010 · Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 – March 1, 2010) was an American abstract artist who was romantically involved with two prominent American artists of the mid-20th century, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Quick Facts Born, Died ... Close. Early life and education.
Mar 6, 2010 · Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her lover at the...
Mar 11, 2010 · Ruth Kligman, the abstract artist known as the lone survivor of the car crash that killed Jackson Pollock more than 50 years ago, died last week in New York. The longtime Manhattanite was a...
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