The painting, including polar bear hairs trapped in the paint that match a pelt rug from his studio, is owned by Ruth Kligman, an artist who was Pollock's mistress and the only one to survive when ...

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 ...

Ruth Kligman ‘s harrowing, intimate memoir, LOVE AFFAIR (1974) , detailed her doomed romance with Jackson Pollock (screen siren Jennifer Connelly portrayed her in Ed Harris’s 2000 biopic ...