Reviews ranged from those who saw in his art America's catching up with the 21st century and those who could not fathom what it was in his drips and spatters that could be called art. Slowly the mainstream press came to accept what the finer critics saw in his work and he is now known as one of as probably the greatest twentieth century American painter.

Much has been written about Pollock and it makes for a very interesting read, a good reference source is the biography  by B. H. Friedman "Jackson Pollock: Energy Made Visible" published in 1972.