Comments on: Jackson Pollock's hi-fi: A work of art?

The Audiophiliac visits Jackson Pollock's house and discovers the abstract expressionist painter had a decent hi-fi.

[Eudonym]

The turntable appears to be a Garrard RC98 changer, the drives look like Altec Lansing. I don't see a crossover network in the photos.

[4schler]

very cool to see that sort of mingling of art. i'd be interested to see what he was listening to. you didn't check through his vinyl library at all, did you?

on a side note, are you still planning on putting together those sub-$3,000 stereo systems? i was really interested to see what you ended up with there.

[Dperek]

For the full version of the story you should read the Pollack biography by Stevens and Swan. The short version is as follows:

In the early 1930's when the country was in the middle of the (first) great depression, de Kooning got an advance from his job at A.S. Beck for the amount of $700 and bought a record player by the name of the Capehart high-fidelity system (one of the first to change records automatically). He is described as being nourished by music and would regularly blast Stravinsky and Louis Armstrong in his studio. Makes you take another look at those paintings eh?

[Dperek]

I do realize the article is about pollack, but it's hard to ignore the similarities to pollack considering they both had houses out in the Hamptons and were somewhat bitter (envious?) artistic rivals in the 1950's. anyhoo...