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Jackson and Lee Pollock were moving out to Springs on Long Island, giving up their studio which was a whole floor on 8th Street in Manhattan. Brooks took the front half and Jay Pollock, the rear part. Two paintings were left, "Gothic" for Jay and "Pasiphaë" which hung in the bathroom. Brooks was painting in a modification of synthetic cubism gradually becoming more abstract. He was interested in Pollock's work, finding it invigorating and liberating, especially the way [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] Pollack broke the space concept that had bound all artists before. Brooks said of Pollock, "his unconscious comes through pretty strongly in his paintings , more so than most of us, and it helped us to break through so we didn't think so consciously of how pictures should be made or how space had to be constructed but it kind of worked right into another world".

In 1947 James Brooks married an artist, Charlotte Park, whom he had met in Washington, D.C., where he was stationed before being discharged from the service. They used to visit the Jackson Pollocks, staying for a weekend or overnight. They also liked Montauk ad took the train there and, having no other means of transportation, hiked around the countryside. They later rented a house there for the summer, then purchased a place on the Bay [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]]to which they moved in the Summer of 1949. The Pollocks visited them often, having great times together and usually ending by discussing the art world and painting. Jim said "Jackson could talk about painting quite beautifully. It was good to talk about your work with him because he attacked it in a structural way - not bringing in other meaning that painting has that you can't talk about too much. Other ties he would go into a very interesting monologue about the things in painting you had done that provoked him in a psychological way - the images - the strange formations you were bringing out or repressing."

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