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Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 — November 15, 2008) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.

Biography and early career

Grace Hartigan gained her reputation as part of the New York School of artists and painters that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and '50s. She was a lively participant in the vibrant artistic and literary milieu of the times, and her friends included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Frank O'Hara, and many other painters, artists, poets, and writers. She was the only woman artist in the Museum of Modern Art's legendary The New American Painting exhibition which toured Europe in the late 1950s.^[1]

Hartigan relocated to Baltimore, Maryland in the 1960s where she resided until her death. Over the years she has had dozens of solo exhibits, as well as participating in group shows for galleries such as Tibor de Nagy and Martha Jackson in New York, and her paintings are held by prestigious museums such as the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art. From 1965 on she worked at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she was the director of the Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting; see Maryland Institute College of Art MFA Programs.

See also

• Abstract Expressionism
• Frank O'Hara

References

Bibliography

• Hirsh, Sharon L., Grace Hartigan: Painting Art History. Carlisle, PA: The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, 2003.
• LaMoy, William and Joseph McCaffrey (Eds.), The Journals of Grace Hartigan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009, [1]
• Mattison, Robert S., Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990.
• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4. p. 162-165
• Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6. p. 16; p. 37; p. 174-177
• Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless An Illustrated Survey With Artists' Statements, Artwork and Biographies. (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 9780967799421. p. 116-119

External links

• New York Times Obituary
• Guardian obituary
• Telegraph obituary
• Grace Hartigan Papers at Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center
• Grace Hartigan page on the Baltimore Collective
• Maryland Art Source

From Wikiquote

Grace Hartigan (1922-03-28 – 2008-11-15) was an Abstract Expressionist painter. She gained her reputation as part of the New York School of artists who emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.

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• I feel that we are living a very fragmented life; the whole world — you too. So I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure that doesn't deter me in the least.
  • Quoted in Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Contemporary Artists: A-K (St. James Press, 2002, ISBN 1558624880), p. 680

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• I have found 'my subject', it concerns that which is vital and vulgar in American life and the possibility of its transcendence into the beautiful.

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