Grace Hartigan

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Grace Hartigan (born March 28, 1922 in Newark (New Jersey) , † November 15, 2008 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American painter . She is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism .

Life

Grace Hartigan was one of the younger members of the American Abstract Expressionist movement at the New York School of the 1940s and 1950s. Her artistic friends and companions included Jackson Pollock , Larry Rivers , Helen Frankenthaler , Willem de Kooning , Elaine de Kooning , Frank O'Hara and other avant-garde painters, artists and writers. In the 1960s she moved to Baltimore, where she has lived and worked ever since. In 1959 she participated in documenta 2 in Kassel in the painting department .

Hartigan has had numerous group and solo exhibitions, nationally and internationally. In the USA she was represented in particular by the renowned galleries Tibor de Nagy and Martha Jackson in New York. Her works are featured in major museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art . Since 1965 Hartigan worked and taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she was director of the Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting .

literature

  • Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
  • Sharon L. Hirsh: Grace Hartigan: Painting Art History. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 2003
  • Robert S. Mattison: Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World . Hudson Hills Press, New York 1990
  • American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey . New York School Press, 2003, ISBN 0-9677994-1-4
  • New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists . New York School Press, 2000, ISBN 0-9677994-0-6

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personal data
SURNAME Hartigan, Grace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark (New Jersey)
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 2008
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland