Paul Jackson Pollock: A Revolutionary of American Abstraction Jackson Pollock, born January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming, and tragically dying August 11, 1956, in East Hampton, New York, remains one of the most iconic and debated figures in 20th-century art. More than just a painter, he was a radical innovator who fundamentally altered our understanding of what painting could be – shifting from representational imagery to an intensely p…