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Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 – March 1, 2010) was an American abstract artist [1] who was romantically involved with two prominent American artists of the mid-20th century, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
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, her...
Aug 22, 2012 · 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 Authentication Board, whose members were...
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.
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.
Jan 1, 2010 · 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.
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?
Mar 10, 2010 · Although badly injured, Ruth Kligman an artist in her own right, survived to become romantically involved with a string of significant art figures. She has died in New York, aged 80.
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.
Nov 25, 2013 · Nov. 24, 2013. For nearly 60 years, a small painting with swirls and splotches of red, black and silver has stood as a symbol of enmity between two women: Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock’s widow, and...