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 grain buyer, instilled within him a restless spirit and an acu…