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Jackson Pollock's paintings from the early 1930s—rhythmic landscapes with white horses, an occasional marine—show him trying on Albert Pinkham Ryder's subjects and compositional devices to find a comfortable fit. Going West is a close transcription of Ryder's Sentimental Journey, perhaps commemorating Pollock's own "sentimental journey" in 1934 to visit his mother following his father's death.

Source: Elizabeth Broun. Albert Pinkham Ryder. (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art , 1989).

Pictured: Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), Going West,about 1934–35, oil, 15 1/8 x 20 3/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Thomas Hart Benton.