The Leiber Collection in Springs will have Helen Harrison join on Sunday, February 11, at 3 PM, as she discusses “An Accidental Corpse,” the second book from her Art of Murder Mysteries Series.
“An Accidental Corpse” is set on the night of August 11, 1956, in Springs, when Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree. The accident killed Pollock, the world-renowned abstract painter and alcoholic, and his 25-year-old passenger, Edith Metzger…or did it? Metzger’s autopsy reveals that she was already dead before the crash. Was it murder? This shocking question draws vacationing Detective Juanita Diaz and her husband, Captain Brian Fitzgerald, of the NYPD, into a homicide investigation that implicates famous members of East Hampton’s art community, including Pollock himself.
Helen A. Harrison, the recently retired Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, is the former curator of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton and Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton. She has also been a guest curator at the Queens Museum in Flushing, taught at the School of Visual Arts, and holds an adjunct faculty position in Stony Brook University’s Department of Art.
From 1978 to 2006, she wrote art reviews and feature articles for the Long Island section of The New York Times, and she was the visual arts commentator for WLIU 88.3 FM, Long Island University’s NPR-affiliated radio station, from 2004 to 2009. Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly and popular publications, and she’s the author of several books, including, most recently, four mystery novels set in the New York art world.
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