Two years later he took a job as a political cartoonist for the United Automobile Workers' newspaper in Detroit, Michigan.
After visiting Michigan State University in 1942, he joined the faculty in the Art Department, where he would teach for the next two decades.
Until the mid 1940s, Pollock followed the social realist movement, studying under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York.
During the Great Depression and the New Deal era of the 1930s, Pollock began working for the Resettlement Administration, alongside fellow Social Realist Ben Shahn, supervising murals through the Midwestern and Southern United States.
[4] Charles Pollock abandoned social realism in the 1940s, and turned to abstract expressionism and color field painting.