Reginald Pollack, 1924-2001, "BLUE RIDGE ", 1988, Acrylic on Masonite, signed and dated , verso signed, dated and titled
Pollack was born to Hungarian immigrants in Middle Village, Long Island, New York, on July 29, 1924. He graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York City. Pollack had an identical twin brother Merrill, who was an editor and writer with positions at the Saturday Evening Post, Simon and Schuster and Viking Press. Another brother Louis Pollack established the Peridot Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York.
Pollack and his brothers were routinely taken by their father who was a tailor at Lord and Taylor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There they taught themselves to sketch. After serving in the U.S. Armed Forces Pollack using the GI bill traveled to Paris to study art. There he married his first wife Hanna Ben Dov, also an artist. He also married his second wife, Naomi Newman, an opera singer while living in Paris. This second marriage produced two daughters, Jane and Maia. His third wife and confidant of 32 years was Kerstin Birgitta Binns, an engineering organizational administrator of Swedish, Danish descent. In 1971 Pollack wrote the book: The Magician and the Child, dedicated to:" Kerstin Birgitta." They married in 1974, and she became his muse. Today she is the curator of the Reginald Pollack

Pollack was born to Hungarian immigrants in Middle Village, Long Island, New York, on July 29, 1924. He graduated from the High School of Music and Art in New York City. Pollack had an identical twin brother Merrill, who was an editor and writer with positions at the Saturday Evening Post, Simon and Schuster and Viking Press. Another brother Louis Pollack established the Peridot Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York.
Pollack and his brothers were routinely taken by their father who was a tailor at Lord and Taylor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. There they taught themselves to sketch. After serving in the U.S. Armed Forces Pollack using the GI bill traveled to Paris to study art. There he married his first wife Hanna Ben Dov, also an artist. He also married his second wife, Naomi Newman, an opera singer while living in Paris. This second marriage produced two daughters, Jane and Maia. His third wife and confidant of 32 years was Kerstin Birgitta Binns, an engineering organizational administrator of Swedish, Danish descent. In 1971 Pollack wrote the book: The Magician and the Child, dedicated to:" Kerstin Birgitta." They married in 1974, and she became his muse. Today she is the curator of the Reginald Pollack Collection.
DIMENSIONS with frame : Height 11.50 inch / 29 cm
Length 12.25 inch / 31 cm

DIMENSIONS with out frame: Height 8 nch / 20 cm
Length 8.75 inch / 22,5 cm