Grace Hartigan

Grace Hartigan ( born March 28, 1922 in Newark (New Jersey), † November 15, 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American painter. It is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism.

Life

Grace Hartigan was one of the younger members of the movement of the American Abstract Expressionists of the New York School of the 1940s and 1950s. Her artistic friends and fellows included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Frank O'Hara, and other avant-garde painters, artists and writers. In the 1960s she moved to Baltimore ( Maryland), where she lived and worked ever since. In 1959 she was a participant of documenta 2 in Kassel in the painting department.

Hartigan had numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. In the United States it was particularly represented by the Tibor de Nagy renowned galleries and Martha Jackson in New York. Her works are included in major museums and collections, including the Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art Since 1965, worked and taught Hartigan at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting served as director.