Before Jackson Pollock was Jackson Pollock—the world-renowned artist famous for his enormous, paint-splattered canvases and some of the most valuable works in American art—he was a 20-year-old student sharing a cramped West Village apartment with his brother.
Pollock lived on the top floor of 46 Carmine Street from 1932 to 1933 with his older brother, Charles, and Charles’s wife, Elizabeth. Not exactly the glamorous artist loft of later New York lore, the two-room…

