While visiting the 196th LIB I went on an aerial reconnaissance flight. Two radio officers looked out the open door of a Huey and radioed back information about what they were observing as the craft flew above an area of interest. The next day I would be on the ground with a patrol in the area being observed. This pen and ink drawing depicts one of the officers at work on the floor, looking out the door of a "huey."

"The Quiet Side of Military Life - Arts & Crafts in the U.S. Army," by Noelle Backer, December 1996 , p. 22
Includes interview with Pollock

Pollock art on the cover
Looking Down the Trail

Tour: November 1, 1967 to March 15, 1968

Tour: November 1, 1967 to March 15, 1968

Tour: November 1, 1967 to March 15, 1968

Tour: November 1, 1967 to March 15, 1968

Tour: November 1, 1967 to March 15, 1968

Tour: November 1, 1967 to March 15, 1968

Tour: November 1, 1967 to March 15, 1968

Tour: February 1, 1968 to June 15, 1968

Tour: February 1, 1968 to June 15, 1968

Tour: February 1, 1968 to June 15, 1968

Tour: February 1, 1968 to June 15, 1968

Tour: February 1, 1968 to June 15, 1968

Tour: February 1, 1968 to June 15, 1968

Tour: August 15 1968 to December 31, 1968

Tour: August 15 1968 to December 31, 1968

Tour: August 15 1968 to December 31, 1968

Tour: August 15 1968 to December 31, 1968

Tour: August 15 1968 to December 31, 1968

Tour: February 1, 1969 to June 15, 1979

Tour: February 1, 1969 to June 15, 1979

Tour: February 1, 1969 to June 15, 1979

Tour: February 1, 1969 to June 15, 1979

Tour: February 1, 1969 to June 15, 1979

Lonesome: Being overseas, away from family, friends, and familiar places by itself can be emotionally draining on any soldier. Throw into that mix having to go out on a patrol where danger and all kinds of physical hardships have to be injured. I did this painting as a result of my visit with 199th LIB in Vietnam. I tried to capture the emotional drain war can have on an individual. How after coming back from patrol a soldier can be emotionally and physically exhausted. Waiting: While visiting the 199th LIB I sat around waiting with the soldiers I would soon be going on patrol with. In the gouache sketch I tried to express the melancholy feelings that accompanied the wait. Two prints on foam board.

While working as a soldier artist in Vietnam I visited 199th LIB. At the time of my visit they captured two VC suspects and were interrogating them. I did sketches and this watercolor interpreting this experience. Watercolor print on foam board.

Waiting to lift off was inspired by a trip fellow artist Sam Alexander and I made to the 93rd setting in less than an hour after being wounded. "Dust Off" was the tactical call sign we used by aid ambulances. Flying into an active landing zone to pick up wounded was a dangerous job. We now know that pilots, crew chiefs, and accompanying medical corpsmen stood a 1 in 3 chance of being injured, wounded, or killed in their line of work. I didn't fly on a "Dust Off" but did at least two related paintings out of respect for these brave soldiers who put their lives at risk daily for others. Ink/watercolor print on foam board.

Korea Team: David L. Grinstein, Chester Jezierski, William H. Steel, Howard D. Webb, Lawrence A. Westby
Tour: April 20 1970 to June 20, 1970

Thailand Team: Gerald W. Dokken, Glen Felch, Kenneth R. Grissom, Richard Nickolson
Tour: October 1 1970 to January 30, 1971

Thailand Team: Herbert J. Brady, Jr., Larry R. Herring, Joseph L. Mertes, Joseph F. Rodriquez
Tour: February 14, 1971 to June 15, 1971

German Team: Joseph S. Hindley, William G. Jacobson, Jr., William F. Voiland, Robert A. Winter
Tour: December 4, 1972 to February 9, 1973

Alaska Team: Mark McFaul, Richard John Peterson
Tour: March 15, 1974 to June 14, 1974

Panama Team: Michael R. Bigbie, Steven M. Hyatt
Tour: April 1, 1974 to July 1, 1974

Artwork of two cattails. Framed image size is 15" x 18". Text on the back says - SD Digest Illustration. Used in renewal insert Digest 1981 volume 48 #5. Also make prints. Cattail."

Framed object - Centennial Lake Story", SD Digest illustration by James Pollock.

Abstract Art.
Serial no. 90.8.23.1
Related sketches 89.5.4.1 and 89.5.4.2.

ink drawing of a child feeding an equine animal. A buffalo and a sign saying “The Badger Hole” are visible in the background. Text on the back says “Illustration. Digest & Brochure? “Custer State Park”.” Framed size is 13.5” x 16”.

Line art of a coyote howling in front of the moon. Framed size is 15.5" x 13.5".

Howling wolf in front of a sun/moon.

Landscape of a teepee at sunrise/sunset.

Landscape of a farm at sunrise/sunset.

Three bison. Ivory paper, straight lines across the top

Bison models are from Roy Hauck, Tripple U Ranch