Robyn Lea

Dinner with Jackson Pollock Robyn Lea

Marc Notes: Spiral bound;handwritten recipes on endpapers.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-169). Publisher Marketing: Jackson Pollock the artist needs no introduction--but perhaps lesser known is Jackson Pollock the gardener, baker, and dinner-party host. From starters and entrees to side dishes, breads, and desserts, Dinner with Jackson Pollock features more than fifty recipes collected from handwritten pages scrawled by Jackson; his wife, artist Lee Krasner; his mother, Stella; or traded among their many friends in the town of Springs on Long Island, interspersed with Jackson's masterworks, still lifes of the Pollock-Krasner home, and beautiful photographs of each delectable recipe, plus delightful tales from Jackson and Lee's family and local friends, for a truly unique and insightful portrait of a great American artist.

Contributor Bio:  Harrison, Helen A Helen A. Harrison, the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, is an art historian and curator who specializes in modern American art. A former art critic and feature writer for The New York Times and NPR radio commentator, she has lectured widely and is the author of numerous exhibition catalogues and several books, including a monograph on Larry Rivers and (with Constance Ayres Denne) Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach. She and her husband, the artist Roy Nicholson, live in Sag Harbor, New York.