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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ruth_KligmanRuth Kligman - Wikipedia

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   Painting. Kligman was an abstract painter, working in New York City, New York. Her works include Joan of Arc and the Light and Deman series. Kligman developed in several directions at different stages in her career, including iconography, gilding, curved canvases, bright primary shapes, and sunset-inspired gradations.

   • Education: Art Students League, New School for Social Research, New York University
   • Known for: Painter

   • Nationality: American
   • Movement: Abstract

3. www.vanityfair.com › culture › 2012The Canvas and the Triangle - Vanity Fair

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   Aug 22, 2012 · The Canvas and the Triangle. Jackson Pollock’s mistress Ruth Kligman said she watched him paint it, as a love token, just before his fatal 1956 car crash. But the Pollock-Krasner...

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   What did Ruth Kligman know about Jackson Pollock?

   • Ruth Kligman knew all about the darkness that haunted the world of Jackson Pollock. Fifty years earlier, when she was his mistress, she had seen it firsthand the night the notoriously troubled artist drove off a narrow country lane, killing himself, her best friend, and traumatizing Kligman for life.

   The Curse of Jackson Pollock: The Truth Behind the World's Greatest Art

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   Why did Kligman's painting become a national treasure?

   • To the trustees of a trust in Kligman’s name and other longtime Kligman supporters, on the other hand, the painting is a national treasure long denied its proper place in the cultural landscape by an elite art-world clique honoring a personal vendetta against Kligman on behalf of Pollock’s wife, artist Lee Krasner.

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   Why did de Kooning call Kligman a sponge?

   • Kligman said that de Kooning had called her “his sponge” because she asked him so many questions and soaked up so much about the New York School of painting, though her own work, which she exhibited throughout her life, drew from her Abstract Expressionist mentors only in the beginning.

   Ruth Kligman (1930–2010) - Artforum

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   Who became Ruth's next artworld conquest?

   • They turned out to be Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Johns, who became Ruth's next artworld conquest. "You've really done a survey course of the major American painters of the twentieth century," I say. "I know," Ruth says, laughing. "But my motivation for these relationships was always misunderstood.

   The Story of Ruth Kligman, the Woman at the Center of the ... - ELLE

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5. www.elle.com › culture › art-designThe Story of Ruth Kligman, the Woman at the Center of the ...

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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 greatness ...

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6. www.artforum.com › news › ruth-kligman-1930/2010/193804Ruth Kligman (1930–2010) - Artforum

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   Mar 7, 2010 · By News Desk. March 7, 2010 9:34 am. 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.

7. www.nytimes.com › 2010/03/06 › artsRuth Kligman, Muse and Artist, Dies at 80 - The New York Times

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   Mar 6, 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,...

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   Jan 1, 2010 · The Curse of Jackson Pollock: The Truth Behind the World's Greatest Art Scandal | Around the O. January 1, 2010 - 1:10pm. Twitter Facebook. Ruth Kligman knew all about the darkness that haunted the world of Jackson Pollock.

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    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? Or was there more to her story?