Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.

"On the night of August 11, 1956, Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree, killing himself. Pollock, the world-renowned abstract painter and notorious alcoholic, also killed his 24-year old passenger Edith Metzger in the crash...or did he? Metzger's autopsy reveals that she was already dead before the crash. In this reimagining of that shocking night, this disclosure draws vacationing Detective Juanita Diaz and her husband, Captain Brian Fitzgerald...

The author retraces the sources of Pollock's work. Includes comparative photographs illustrating paintings by artists Pollock admired to further explain his work.

"In 1956, Time magazine referred to Pollock as 'Jack the Dripper'. His iconic paintings stretch out with the generosity and scale of America's Western landscape where the artist grew up. Pollock said that he painted 'out of his conscious': the cathartic dribbled paint reflected his troubled mind. This book traces Pollock's career and discusses how his loose, individual style was used as a political weapon in the Cold War, representing America as the...