What's in a nickname?
According to Wikipedia it was Time magazine, in 1956, that first referred to Jackson Pollock as Jack the Dripper. (Sadly, the page that Wikipedia links to no longer exists.)
The New York Times used it as the strapline to an article published in 2008, which doesn't mention it otherwise. (To be honest, I've struggled to work out what the actual point of this piece is.)
A website called BigThink.com put it rather well, to my mind, in 2012: "More than half a century after Pollock's death, the 'Jack the Dripper' label still sticks in the public's imagination."
Does this make it a nickname?
I'm not convinced it does, to be honest. Wikipedia – normally a sucker for nicknames – doesn't list it as one, and makes no mention of it apart from the one I've already referred to.
Rather like the previous question, there's no point in making a big thing about it; this is the easiest way of phrasing the question, and people will go on doing it whatever I say here. But I would prefer to phrase it "Which artist ... was sometimes referred to as Jack the Dripper?"
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