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Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 – March 1, 2010) was an American abstract artist who was romantically involved with two prominent American artists of the mid-20th century, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
6. März 2010 · Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone and be everywhere in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her...
22. Aug. 2012 · Jackson Pollock’s mistress Ruth Kligman said she watched him paint it, as a love token, just before his fatal 1956 car crash. But the Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board, whose members were...
7. März 2010 · By News Desk. March 7, 2010 9:34 am. Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone and be everywhere in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time, died Monday, according to the New York Times.
25. Nov. 2013 · Ruth Kligman was Jackson Pollock's mistress (and survived his fatal crash), Williem de Kooning's lover, and even had a dalliance with Jasper Johns. Now, after a lifetime of brushes with...
But who was Ruth Kligman? Was she simple the woman who earned the nickname “death-car girl” from poet Frank O’Hara after being the sole survivor of the crash that ended the life of “the greatest painter” of abstract expressionist movement heralded by art critic Clement Greenberg? Or was there more to her story? And why would her name ...
The only survivor of Jackson Pollock’s deadly car crash in 1956 also happened to be his lover. In fact, she was an artist herself, but is better known today for relationships—sometimes sexual—with several well-known artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Ruth Kligman’s unusual and little-known story is interwoven into the history of modern art.
