Summer Street. Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 – November 15, 2008) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. This is a classic example of Hartigan's treatment of abstraction, which is not void of representation but rather includes a recognizable fruit stand amid a swirl of pattern and color along with a sketchy rendering of her friend, Elaine de Kooning, in the foreground … Jun 23, 2018 - Summer Street | Corcoran (Happy summer).
Critics and historians have called Grace Hartigan both a second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter and a forebear of Pop art, though she was not satisfied with either categorization. Just finished reading Restless Ambition, biography about Grace Hartigan. Summer Street implies urban action and movement through choppy brushwork, without directly representing it. Grace Hartigan was born on March 28 1922 at Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of an accountant and his wife, an estate agent who was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
In the (very good) catalogue for the “Action/Abstraction” show there’s a passage where Hartigan describes a studio visit from Greenberg that went badly. Available for sale from C. Grimaldis Gallery, Grace Hartigan, Summer to Fall (1971-1972), Oil on linen, 108 × 192 in
Grâce Hartigan Grace Hartigan, Abstract Expressionist and one time New York painter has died at the age of 86, reports The Baltimore Sun. Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun: Reframing Abstract Expressionism continues at the American University Museum (4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC) through October 20, … Grace Hartigan was born in Newark in 1922 and grew up in rural New Jersey, the oldest of four children. Hartigan was a confidante of the poet Frank O’Hara who had posed for her and written poems to her. Summer Street, Grace Hartigan, 1956/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Greenberg was horrified by the new turn in Haritgan’s work and never supported it again. Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another in their artistic endeavors, included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Frank O'Hara. She said that although he was homosexual, their emotional intimacy was more intense than any she had with a heterosexual man.