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Lee Pollock 6

but what he managed to do in those few hours was incredible. We had an
agreement that neither of us would go into the other's studio without being'asked. Occasionally, it was something like once a week, he would say: "I have something to show you." I would always be astonished by the amount of work that he had accomplished. In discussing the paintings, he would ask "Does it work?" Or in looking at mine, he would comment "It works" or "it doesn't work." He may have been the first artist to have used the word "work" in that sense. There was no heat in his studio either, but he would manage in winter if he wanted to; he would get dressed up in an outfit the like of which you've never seen. 
     He often said:"There's no problem painting at all; the problem is
what to do when you're not painting."
     In the afternoon, if he wasn't working, we might bicycle to town. Or
when we had a car he would drive me to town and sit and wait in the car
for me while I shopped. When he was working, he would go to town when the
light gave out and get a few cartons of beer to bring home. Of course, 
during those 2 years (1948-1950) he was on the wagon , he didn't touch beer either. We would often drive out in the old Model A and get out and walk. Or we would sit on the stoop for hours and not say a word. We never rarely {{??}} had art talk. Perhaps sometimes shop talk, but never art gossip like who's going to what gallery. 
     One thing I will say about Pollock: the one time I saw temperament in him was when he baked an apple pie, and it didn!t work. Or when he tried to take a photograph. He never showed any artistic temperament. He loved to bake, I did the cooking, and he did the baking when he felt like it. He was very fastidious about his baking--marvelous bread, cakes and pies. He also made a great spaghetti sauce. 
     He loved machinery, so he got a lawn-mower. We made an agreement