Jack Henry Pollock, author, painter, art educator and art dealer, was a fixture on the Toronto art scene for over three decades. Pollock was the flamboyant founder and owner of The Pollock Gallery in Toronto. He was widely reputed to have a skilled eye for identifying talent in young artists and was instrumental in the careers of many notable artists that he represented including David Hockney, Susan Ross, Ken Danby, Norval Morrisseau, Roy Thomas, Catherine Senitt, Charles Pachter, Robert Bateman and Willem de Kooning.

Pollock graduated from the Ontario College of Art *(OCAD) in 1954 and subsequently studied at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art* in London, England. Afterwards, he returned to Canada and was employed as a ...