Main Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. The pride of Roseburg and Medford, Oregon had driven his last lap. Johnny Rutherford, who had been one of the first drivers on the scene of Pollard's Please ensure you have given Find a Grave permission to access your location in your browser settings. Photo courtesy of Mike Pollard. First published in 2016, this is an expanded version of Art Pollards biography that includes more content and photos. Wordfence is a security plugin installed on over 4 million WordPress sites. It was a needed and welcome improvement. You can always change this later in your Account settings. The flames melted it and crinkled it all up.". A native of Portland, Oregon, Bob Kehoe is a freelance automotive journalist and photographer who wrote his first car column for his high school newspaper. Kunzman took over Pollard's car for the remainder of the 1973 season. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. He and Pollard were close friends. Emily Kasriel explores the art of plague from the Black Death to current times. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. Make sure that the file is a photo. This biographical article related to United States auto racing is a stub. I told 'em I was at the Indy 500. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Steve Krisiloff, who started the 1973 race seventh and finished sixth, recalled coming around to take the green flag on his pole day qualifying attempt. Death 12 May 1973 (aged 46) Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA. the blue McLaren-Offy of rookie David "Salt" Walther drifted to the right, Finally, mercifully, the "72 Hours of Indianapolis" were over. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. "Terrible. Schwankovsky gave Pollock some rudimentary training in drawing and painting, introduced him to advanced currents of European modern art, and encouraged his interest in theosophical literature. Methanol, at 70 degrees, weighs about 6.6 pounds a gallon. 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He really put his foot into it and topped teammate Hills speed with an incredible 171.559 mph average. This is a carousel with slides. The car was uncompetitive and Art switched to a new Lotus Offy. Last Updated: Jan 24, 2023 Article History Table of Contents Jackson Pollock See all media Born: January 28, 1912 Cody Wyoming Died: August 11, 1956 (aged 44) East Hampton New York Notable Works: "Mural" Movement / Style: Abstract Expressionism Action painting automatism modern art Notable Family Members: spouse Lee Krasner The organization sanctioned the Indianapolis 500, which Pollard raced in five times. crash, ended up on the pole at 198.413 mph, including one lap in the 199s. He was a people magnet, and I feel privileged that he was my dad, for that reason. In the fall of 1930 Pollock followed his brother Charles, who left home to study art in 1922, to New York City, where he enrolled at the Art Students League under his brothers teacher, the regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton. Foyt, although Foyt then took to teammate George Snider's car. Characteristic paintings from this period include Bird (c. 1941), Male and Female (c. 1942), and Guardians of the Secret (1943). ($117,009.92 in 2017 dollars Enough to pay cash for a house in some Cities). Tuesday was wet, as well, and the drivers saw the red flag while on their parade lap. Art's Parents - Artle Lee Pollard Sr. (1903-1964) & Bobbie Marie (Jaynes) Pollard (1907-2000). I was a helluva mess at the time but still conscious. And you dont always get that from, not just race drivers, but also other stars so-to-speak. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate, or jump to a slide with the slide dots. Pollard, 46, was pronounced dead an hour later from pulmonary damage due to flame inhalation. And that was the most impressive thing, Bobby Plump said. Upon his death, Pollard's family established the Art Pollard Fund with a $25,000 bequest. He died after driving drunk and crashing into a tree in New York in 1956, at age 44. From his years with Benton through 1938, Pollocks work was strongly influenced by the compositional methods and regionalist subject matter of his teacher and by the poetically expressionist vision of the American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. A popular super-modified champion in the Western States in the 1960s to ultimately the Championship Car Series achieving the pinnacle of racing at the famed Brickyard in Indiana. Mike couldnt believe what he was hearing. After 1 lap, Art replaced Weld in the #57. Pollard, away from racing, worked as a car dealer and mechanic and worked with mental health charities. I had to learn to walk again. If you think you have been blocked in error, contact the owner of this site for assistance. Since 1973, three competitors have been killed at Indy -- Gordon Smiley in '82, Jovy Marcelo in '92 and Scott Brayton in '96 -- along with two spectators and a trespasser "It was amazing to come back the next year and it was as if people had not forgotten about it, but cleansed it from their minds and were ready for another 500-mile race.". Art's dad was born in Anderson, Texas. Car trouble ends his day early on lap 45. Now engineers design and redesign cars and seats and helmets to minimize the effect on catching its nose and twirling like a propeller a half-dozen times while also overturning. May, 1972 - On May 7th Art Pollard became the 13th member of the 180 . "I couldn't see where I was going or what I was doing. Art Pollard: The Gentleman Racer Paperback - September 13, 2019 by Bob Kehoe (Author) 9 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback $25.00 1 New from $25.00 First published in 2016, this is an expanded version of Art Pollard's biography that includes more content and photos. A system error has occurred. "We flipped it over and I didn't want to see him because I knew I had to race. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. You never saw him when he wasnt smiling, Mike said. Raw speed ruled. Art Pollard As I See Him by Andy Granatelli, Auto Racing Magazine Of The Worlds Greatest Sport, August 1969. And I told 'em: "Goddammit, somebody hit me from behind.". It erupted in flames with the green flag still waving. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? Then they had two big fellas, two great big fellas, come in and lift me up and hold me up in the air and let me try and move my legs. Art and his crew started 28 main events and won an astonishing 22 of them., Perhaps his most admirable quality (off the track) was his ability to take a moment of his time and make everybody he talked with feel important. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. He was rushed to Methodist Hospital, but died shortly afterward. Jungian symbolism and the Surrealist exploration of the unconscious also influenced his works of this period; indeed, from 1939 through 1941 he was in treatment with two successive Jungian psychoanalysts who used Pollocks own drawings in the therapy sessions. And he always made time for both kids and adults!. Milwaukee-area auto dealer. Despite his hard luck with cars, Pollard quickly gained a strong fan base, not just from Southern Oregon, but at Indy as well. Parts of my kneecap were smashed. Pop-off valves cut boost and the horsepower generated by turbochargers. Among his contemporaries, he was respected for his deeply personal and totally uncompromising commitment to the art of painting. "I thought, my goodness, we're never going to recover from this," said the speedway's Carnegie. Teran, a mechanic on Graham McRae's car, sprinted down pit lane to see if he could be of help to his injured teammate. google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; It was a lot of fun.. remember very vividly But more often than not, car trouble kept him from winning the big prize at Indy. He was a truck driver who was elated when asked to become an STP crewman.]. BARBARA POLLARD OBITUARY. Savage was moving toward the front again on Lap 59 There was an error deleting this problem. (HTTP response code 503). Johncock left the track quickly. Other cars were losing parts. But for a while I was very depressed. Christie started at Indianapolis every year from 1956 to 63. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Art Pollard (7232111)? From a small hydroplane on Oregon's Umpqua River to micro-midgets and modified stock cars on a half-mile oval in Roseburg, Oregon. Bob Kehoes book, Art Pollard: The Life and Legacy of a Gentleman Racer, Chapter 30 May 12, 1973, Lifelong friends respond to Arts fatal accident, May 12, 1973. ". He is believed to be the first driver from Southern Oregon to race at Indy. Your Scrapbook is currently empty. A race in his name has been held in the Rogue Valley and in Roseburg, where he lived for several years prior to moving to Medford. Actor Michael J. Pollard, known for his roles in "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Star Trek," has died at the age of 80. |, Copyright 1999-2006 When it snapped, Art lost a wheel, spun around and slammed into the third turn concrete." Article, "Hospital Room Looks Like a Greenhouse," Robin Miller, The Indianapolis Star, 1972 google_page_url = document.location; Johncock's victory gave owner Pat Patrick the first of his three triumphs at Indy, and He had a high sense of ethics, Martin said. On race day, Monday, May 28, the massive crowd included 23 U.S. prisoners of war recently released by Hanoi. It was really impressive, he said. Please enter your email and password to sign in. The traditional post-race banquet was My car hit another and then spun down the track with the wheels off it. Artle Lee Pollard, Jr. (May 5, 1927 May 12, 1973), was an American racecar driver. google_color_url = "0033FF"; Each year it got a little faster and a better car, and then we he started going to out-of-town races, said Green, who was a body shop mechanic for more than 40 years. Pollard was pronounced dead an hour later. Walther, 25, suffered a crushed kneecap and severe burns over most of his body. 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