Though they were found in New York, the paintings Alex Matter claimed were created by famed Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock spent a good chunk of the year in Massachusetts. The Harvard University Art Museums and the Museum of Fine Arts both studied the pictures, finding that some pigments and other materials used in the works couldn't have been around in the United States in Pollock's lifetime. Even so, Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art chose to show the works in the exhibit "Pollock Matters."