Martin says Bob Christie was a class act in the racing community. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). There was an error deleting this problem. "He told me, 'Don't go up there,'" Johncock recalled. Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming, on January 28, 1912. Johnny Rutherford won the pole position. And he always made time for both kids and adults!. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Smiley's funeral was held on May 20, 1982 and he was buried in his birth location in Nebraska. 1970 Indianapolis 500 [ESPN Classic Telecast Version] (Full Race), 5. driving on the track. This account has been disabled. It was an unspectacular run. with crashes that killed drivers Art Pollard and Swede Savage and crewman Armando Teran The figurative character of works such as Totem Lesson 1 (1944) and The Blue Unconscious (1946) contrasts with the heavily painted, all-over design of Shimmering Substance (1946) and Eyes in the Heat (1946), indicating the range of imagery and technique he employed during this period. Art Pollard's story deserves to be told, from his humble beginnings in Dragon, Utah to his untimely death on Pole Day at Indianapolis in 1973. He graduated from Roseburg High School in 1945. On Friday Art qualified fastest with a new track record. We were listening to the radio broadcast of the activity at Indy when they announced that Art had crashed and later passed away in the hospital. The death drew notice, but the loss of one more driver wasn't all that unexpected. google_ad_channel ="0983136519"; The car was running smoothly. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Failed to delete memorial. 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. Main Your access to this service has been limited. Over the next 16 years his family lived in California and Arizona, eventually moving nine times. 'You don't want to go up there.' ,