On August 11, 1956, Pollock had been drinking all day before speeding and losing control of the car in which they and Edith Metzger were traveling. Pollock and Metzger died in the crash.

Feb 12, 2024 · Edith Metzger, known primarily as the friend of Ruth Kligman, Jackson Pollock’s mistress, held the role of receptionist at Kligman’s beauty parlor. Tragically, in 1956, both Edith …

Her friend, Edith Metzger, was not so fortunate. Kligman was a voluptuous and savvy aspiring painter who narrowly escaped a life of predestined normalcy in New Jersey (she left that role to …

Mar 6, 2010 · The Oldsmobile 88 convertible threw Ruth Kligman clear of the death wreck and back into a long life, in which she was not only able to write that description of how her lover …

Aug 22, 2012 · Benedict says that she declined, so Kligman invited Edith Metzger, a receptionist at Kligman’s regular beauty parlor. The two women set off for Long Island on a morning train.

On the night of August 11, 1956, 44-year-old Jackson Pollock drove his Oldsmobile 88 convertible while under the influence of alcohol with two passengers onboard, Edith Metzger and Ruth …

Aug 11, 2023 · Passenger Edith Metzger died and Ruth Kligman was seriously injured. Jackson Pollock’s alcoholism and its impact on his art and life. An online library of 65 art talks. Image: …

Oct 9, 2018 · She also notes particularly that Edith Metzger, a friend of Pollock’s mistress Ruth Kligman, who died in the accident with him, was not dead beforehand, as she is in the book, …

Mar 6, 2010 · Ms. Kligman was an abstract painter, who was known less for her own work than for her role as a muse, lover, friend and subject of an impressive number of American artists.

Kligman’s friend, Edith Metzger -- a 25-year-old who with her family escaped Nazi Germany and who had once met Herman Göring -- was killed. Pollock met Metzger that same morning with …