The Audiophiliac has the details on Jackson Pollack’s own paint-splattered hi-fi:
I visited the Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center last week in East Hampton, New York. While I was there learned the abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock and his wife, artist Lee Krasner had a pretty cool hi-fi.
Yes, I was there for the art but then I noticed the horn speaker under the stairwell to the second floor of the house. Helen Harrison, the Pollock-Krasner House’s Director allowed me to open the door and examine the speaker system in greater detail. She told me the hi-fi was purchased by Pollock in 1954. In the room behind the staircase I spotted a Bogen DB-20 tube amplifier and a Crown (?) turntable I’ve never seen before. Ms. Harrison assured me the hi-fi still works, but the records that were on hand weren’t playable. Oh well.
Jackson Pollock’s hi-fi [Audiophiliac]
That’s pretty cool. I’ve never seen that turntable before. I have a Bogen DB-20 amp somewhere around here. The speakers look like a JBL 12″ woofer and an Electro Voice horn tweeter. It was common to install drivers in wall cavities at that time. I’m glad the guy liked music. From the evidence, the world was pretty hard on him a lot of the time.
Great biopic by Ed Harris, by the way.