A New Theory About Pollock's Mural: He Hid His Signature

rediculous ! I have been looking at that as a painter and love of his work ...I think that is like finding secret code in the bible ... stronger proof is needed .Is there xrays of this ???

The Pollock signature theory seems a little spurious considering that other art historians have found other hidden words in his work. Recoding Jackson Pollock>/a>.

That was not my intention at all. In the last sentence, now changed, I meant there was emnity in the art world toward Adams because of his theory on Eakins -- and that thus he (Adams) is no stranger to controversy.

That last sentence about another book by Henry Adams on another Thomas, ‘Eakins Revealed,’ is a bit jarring since it’s otherwise unrelated to the discussion. Of far greater consequence, however, it seems to agree with the suggestion that Eakins’s alleged molestation of his niece Ella is a matter of incontrovertible fact. Not so.

In ‘Eakins Revealed’ (which carries the revealing subtitle ‘The Secret Life of an American Artist’), Adams implies that Eakins was also responsible for Ella’s suicide at age twenty-four. Chapter 5, “The Death of Ella Cromwell,” is peppered with such phrases as these: “possibly they also sensed,” “allegedly. . .,” “accordingto various informant,” “one cannot help wondering,” “according to one of her siblings (unnamed),” “surely it would have been natural,” and “he did not seem.”

Adams cites a photograph of Ella taken by Eakins, possibly not too long before her death, in which she looks “miserable, in fact desperate.”
And more: “Ella did not wish to be photographed. She was being hunted. Eakins had trapped her between him and a tree. . . . [T]here is a hint of sadism. . . .” Then there is Eakins’s only painting of Ella, “Baby at Play” (http://tinyurl.com/BabyAtPlay), which Adams claims “relates” to Ella’s death, albeit “less directly.”

Louis Torres, Co-Editor, Aristos (An Online Review of the Arts)