clement greenberg, critic and promoter of the new york school, became their spokesman and a friend ofhe leading abstract expressionist, jackson pollock. i first met jackson pollock in 1942. came down the sidewalk, and there was lee krasner, whom i'd known of old, and she was with a very respectable-looking gentleman. and, uh...i saw this rather nice-looking guy, and lee said to me, "this fellow's going to be a great painter." i went, "well, ok." what finally hit me in pollock's art was the portable mural he did for the apartment house in which peggy guggenheim lived. that hit me. it was the first time i saw him go all over, repeat this way. i thought that was a great painting, and i began to follow pollock assiduously, you could say, after that. raised in the american southwest, pollock was influenced by indian sand painting, and in a sense, his works internalized the desert landscape itself. in new york, he studied the works of modern european masters, especially miro and picasso. i think he had his best run in '47, '48, '49, '50, what i call the "all over," when he spattered or drip