“Then and Now: Six of the New York School Look Back.” Art in America 73, no. A former staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, she holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. “New Talent USA: Fifty-Six Painters and Sculptors.” Art in America 52, no. Cathy Curtis is the author of Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter (OUP, 2015). “Second Generation: Mannerism or Momentum?” Art in America 73, no. Purchase, N.Y.: Neuberger Museum of Art, 2001.īaker, Kenneth. : Cathy Curtis (Writer on art) Oxford University Press, 2015 - Art - 420 pages. Fort Wayne, Ind.: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 1981. Hartigan, thirty years of painting, 1950-1980. She knew many influential contemporary writers, including the poet Frank O’Hara, who dedicated several poems to her. She moved to New York in her early twenties and befriended Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other artists who were pioneering Abstract Expressionism. Hartigan worked primarily in the Abstract Expressionist style, though she experimented with a variety of other styles, such as Pop Art. Attempting to channel her vague ambitions after an early marriage, Grace struggled to master the basics of drawing in night-school classes. Early in her career, she signed her work with the name George Harigan in order to find gallery representation and avoid sexism, as few women artists were able to show their works in the 1950s. Image courtesy of ACA Galleries, 2003Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) was an internationally-renowned artist from Newark, New Jersey who was active in the visual arts from the 1950s onward as a painter and printmaker.
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