Jackson Pollock's major early work Mural (1943) was commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for the entrance hall of her East 61st Street New York residence. Mural-sized, though not actually a mural--the work is painted on a six-meter-long canvas, not directly onto the wall--this vast, frieze-like panorama would be hugely influential in twentieth-century American art.
In Jackson Pollock's Mural: Energy Made Visible, David Anfam explores the painting...