Pollock Fine Art at two different galleries in Summerland well into her ’90s. While Joe ran the Santa Barbara Film Festival for several years, Helene continued to collect and promote local artists at H. Helene and Joe moved to Santa Barbara in 1986 and became heavily involved in the community.
Helene and Joe also spent a lot of time at their ranch in Montana in the 1970’s and Helene loved buying cows at local auctions. Pollock Rugs on Melrose and became the premiere rug dealer in Beverly Hills (among her most famous clients were Jim Morrison and Natalie Wood). Her friends would want to buy them at a marked-up price and Helene quickly realized there was a business opportunity there. She would often send containers of antiques and unique rugs back to Los Angeles. She would travel internationally as a hobby and bring back rugs from her travels throughout Europe, India, Iran, and China. They were locally famous for the parties they hosted at their home on Alpine Drive in the ’50s and ’60s and the room was always filled with amazing houseguests like Dinah Shore, international designer Kalef Alaton and other luminaries of the interior design industry. Joseph Pollock, chief surgeon at Cedars Sinai Hospital, were the quintessential Beverly Hills entertainers. Helene was a socialite of the highest order. After attending The Santa Barbara Girls School, she later spent some time at UCLA before meeting her husband and life partner Joseph Pollock. Helene’s perspective on life was in part influenced by her father’s work. Annie Besant, Beatrice Wood, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and others). Her father Louis found success in the early days of the steel industry and later as a business leader when he introduced theosophy to Southern California and co-founded the Happy Valley School (now Besant Hill) in Ojai (along with theosophists Aldous Huxley, Dr. Her parents Estelle and Louis Zalk moved to Los Angeles in the early 1930’s. Helene Zalk Pollock was born on January 8, 1919, in Duluth, MN.
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