Bruno Alfieri, William Lieberman, Kirk Varnedoe More than fifty years after Peggy Guggenheims first Venice show in 1950, the legacy of Jackson Pollock returns to Italy in two major retrospectives. Separate shows at Courer, Venice and at the Centro Culturale Candiani in Mestre have brought together works from American and European collections including from the Metropolitan; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Tate Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Galleria Nazionale dArte Moderna, Rome. Taken together these two shows trace a parabola from Pollocks early figurative work to the action paintings of the Fifties and describe a fresh view of working painters in New York City from late 1930s to mid-1950s.