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Jackson “puttering” and drawing

      After years of hunting, drawing, driving, and playing cowboy, here, finally was something Jack couldn’t do with Sande. Not that he didn’t try. “We’d go on these dates to weenie bakes or to the movies,” Cooter remembers, “and Jack would come with us. Sande would have a girl and I would have a girl — but Jack, he would be alone.” After a while, no doubt feeling awkward and ignored, Jackson gave up trying and stayed home, “puttering” absently around the Model T, drawing occasionally, and waiting for Sande to return. Leon Cooter, who also liked to tinker with cars, joined him at first. “Now, Leon was slow on starting to date,” says his brother Robert, “but eventually he started bringing girls along with Sande and me and our dates. But Jack never did. I can’t remember Jack ever dating. I remember wondering, ‘Why isn’t Jack interested in girls?’ Just like that.”

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on early years in Riverside, California;
ex Steven W. Naifeh, Jackson Pollock : An American Saga (1989) : 114
borrowable at archive.org : link

epigram from index : 819 : link
 

14 May 2026