Jackson Pollock: A Revolutionary of American Abstraction Born in Cody, Wyoming, in 1912, Paul Jackson Pollock—as he was initially known—emerged from a transient childhood marked by frequent moves across the American West and Southwest. His family’s itinerant existence, rooted in Scotch-Irish heritage and shaped by his father's experiences in South Africa and later as a wheat elevator operator, instilled within him a restless spirit an…