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Charles Pollock was born in Denver, Colorado, the son of a farmer and the eldest of five brothers. His youngest brother, ten years younger than Charles, went on to become legendary artist Jackson Pollock. In 1935, Charles left New York to settle down in Washington, D.C.

In 1937 he settled down in Detroit, Michigan. From 1942 to 1967, he taught design, printmaking, calligraphy and typography at Michigan State University where he created a department of fine printing working with a Washington Hand Press.

After finishing a mural for the Fairchild Auditorium at Michigan State College in 1945, he left the college for a semester to travel the deserts of Arizona for three months in order to paint and draw as well as experimenting with abstraction.

In the years 1955 and 1956 he took a sabbatical year and lived on Lake Chapala in Mexico.

This period saw the origin of his set of works known as the “Chapala Series”, a number of abstract paintings and ink drawings using Indian- and Arabic-like