Called a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, Grace Hartigan has created work that strikes a balance between abstract and figurative. Typically her figures are boldly outlined in black, and she... Read full biography
Called a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, Grace Hartigan has created work that strikes a balance between abstract and figurative. Typically her figures are boldly outlined in black, and she fills them in with blocks of coloration. Of her painting she said: "I do not wish to describe my... Read full biography
Called a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, Grace Hartigan has created work that strikes a balance between abstract and figurative. Typically her figures are boldly outlined in black, and she fills them in with blocks of coloration. Of her painting she said: "I do not wish to describe my subject matter, or to reflect upon it---I want to distill it until I have its essence. Then the rawness must be resolved into form and unity; with the 'rage for order' how can there be art?" ((Herskovic... Read full biography
Called a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, Grace Hartigan has created work that strikes a balance between abstract and figurative. Typically her figures are boldly outlined in black, and she fills them in with blocks of coloration. Of her painting she said: "I do not wish to describe my subject matter, or to reflect upon it---I want to distill it until I have its essence. Then the rawness must be resolved into form and unity; with the 'rage for order' how can there be art?" ((Herskovic 162). In her book, American Women Artists, Charlotte Rubinstein described Hartigan's painting as "gutsy, slashing compositions that incorporated fragments of city imagery---store windows, pushcarts, glimpses of figures---with bold brush-strokes."... Read full biography
Called a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, Grace Hartigan has created work that strikes a balance between abstract and figurative. Typically her figures are boldly outlined in black, and she fills them in with blocks of coloration. Of her painting she said: "I do not wish to describe my subject matter, or to reflect upon it---I want to distill it until I have its essence. Then the rawness must be resolved into form and unity; with the 'rage for order' how can there be art?" ((Herskovic 162). In her book, American Women Artists, Charlotte Rubinstein described Hartigan's painting as "gutsy, slashing compositions that incorporated fragments of city imagery---store windows, pushcarts, glimpses of figures---with bold brush-strokes." (279) . Along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko and others, Grace Hartigan is... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (98)
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler
2018
Gabriel, Mary
1,000 pages (color)
American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless
2009
Herskovic, Marika
252 pages (color)
Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
112 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
2003
Herskovic, Marika (editor)
372 pages (color)
Such Desparate Joy: Imagining Jackson Pollock
2000
Harrison, Helen A
0 pages
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Turning the Feather Around, My Life in Art
1998
Galt, Margot Fortunato
205 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art
1996
Ratcliff, Carter
352 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Hand-Painted Pop American Art in Transition 1955-62 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ferguson, Russell (editor)
256 pages (color)
Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage
1993
Hall, Lee
340 pages
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art
1992
Kingsley, April
416 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
1991
Polcari, Stephen
408 pages (color)
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Women, Art, and Society
1990
Chadwick, Whitney
384 pages (color)
Grace Hartigan A Painter's World
1990
Mattison, Robert S
156 pages (color)
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years
1989
Sparks, Esther
552 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
The Figurative Fifties New York Figurative Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Schimmel, Paul
195 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
National Mus of Women in the Arts
1987
National Museum of Women
253 pages (color)
The Empire State Collection Art for the Public
1987
Sandler, Irving
214 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Profiles on Women Artists
1985
Russo, Alexander
258 pages
Maryland: 350 Years of Art & Architecture (University of Maryland Architecture Department Art Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Johns, Elizabeth; William Elder III, Josephine Withers, et all
248 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
Action, Precision The New Direction in New York (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Schimmel, Paul
159 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Faison, S Lane
1,983 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World
1981
Myers, John Bernard
285 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Contemporary American Prints (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Towle, Tony/Peter Gale
64 pages (color)
Women Artists in Washington Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Withers, Josephine
144 pages (color)
The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties
1978
Sandler, Irving
366 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Themes in American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Sweeney, J Gray
220 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Originals:American Women Artists
1976
Munro, Eleanor
528 pages (color)
Art Talk Conversations with 12 Women Artists
1975
Nemser, Cindy
367 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
1973
Carnegie Institute
196 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
The Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York)
1972
Gruen, John
282 pages
Women Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hill, M Brawley
60 pages
Politics in Art
1972
Mondale, Joan Adams
72 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1942-72
1972
Sandler, Irving (intro)
479 pages (color)
Art Today
1969
Faulkner, Ray; Edwin Ziegfeld
542 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Lieberman, William
139 pages (color)
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1967
Hirsch, Richard
48 pages
The W Hawkins Ferry Collection Detroit Institute of Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Taylor, Joshua C
72 pages (color)
Women Artists of America 1707-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Gerdts, William H
32 pages
American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Hunter, Sam
83 pages (color)
Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
1962
Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
474 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
1,961 pages
60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Walker Art Center
78 pages (color)
School of New York Some Younger Artists
1959
Friedman, B H
84 pages (color)
Jackson Pollock et la Nouvelle Peinture Americaine (Exhibition catalog)
1959
Musee National D'Art Moderne
64 pages
La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine The New American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1958
Museum of Modern Art
88 pages (color)
Die neue amerikanische Malerei The New American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1958
Museum of Modern Art
50 pages
12 Americans: The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Miller, Dorothy C
96 pages (color)
Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Tate Gallery
72 pages
El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)