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.

In 1956, Hartigan's paintings were included in the 12 Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in The New American Painting, which traveled throughout Europe from 1958 to 1959. She received significant press coverage as she was one of few women at this time to receive this level of exposure.

2008年11月15日 · Grace Hartigan, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist linked historically to artists of the first, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, who forged a new form of painting based on bold gesture and experimental brushwork.

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Grace Hartigan was a painter who variously drew on art history, everyday life, and poetry as she moved across figuration and gestural abstraction. “I’m a restless artist,” Hartigan remarked, “As soon as I know how to do something, I get bored and I want to do something else.”

Shinnecock Canal Grace Hartigan • 1957 New England, October 1957 Grace Hartigan • 1957 Orchard Street #2 Grace Hartigan • 1957

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Hartigan gained recognition for her large-scale, sensuous, abstract paintings in 1950. Uncomfortable with the status quo, in 1952 she embarked on a study of Spanish Old Master painters, including Diego Velasquez and Francisco de Goya.

Hartigan’s paintings from the mid-to late-1950s in the Abstract Expressionist idiom are noteworthy for their vibrant colors and powerful brushwork, qualities abundantly evident in paintings like "Scotland."

Grace Hartigan (1922−2008) was an American painter best known for her Abstract Expressionist works of the 1950s, which gradually incorporated recognizable imagery. Her later paintings were sometimes identified with Pop art despite her distaste for that style.