Grace Hartigan
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Grace Hartigan (b. March 28, 1922; d. November 15, 2008) is an Abstract Expressionist painter. She 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. In the 1960s she relocated to Baltimore, Maryland, where she resides today. 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. Since 1965 she had worked at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she was the director of the Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting until her death.
Hartigan died of liver failure on November 15, 2008, at the Lorien Mays Chapel nursing home in Timonium. She was 86.
[edit] Bibliography
- Hirsh, Sharon L., Grace Hartigan: Painting Art History. Carlisle, PA: The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, 2003.
- Mattison, Robert S., Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990.
[edit] Books
- Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4.
- Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN.
[edit] External links
- Grace Hartigan Papers, Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center
- Maryland Art Source
- Obituary, Baltimore Sun, November 16, 2008
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