Grace Hartigan - Bibliography

Painter, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Based in New York City until 1960, she then settled in Baltimore, MD. She was an abstract painter who focused on the human figure, as in ‘River Bathers’ (1953), and also depicted urban landscapes, as seen in ‘City Life’ (1956).

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. 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.

Bibliography

Hirsh, Sharon L., Grace Hartigan: Painting Art History. Carlisle, PA: The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, 2003.