Grace Hartigan

(American, 1922–2008)

lady macbeth by grace hartigan

Grace Hartigan

Lady Macbeth, 1996

585,000 USD

saga by grace hartigan

Grace Hartigan

Saga, 1994

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meat (lexington market series) by grace hartigan

Grace Hartigan

Meat (Lexington Market Series), 1980

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1922
Born, March 22, Newark, NJ
1957
Recipient: Mademoiselle Magazine Merit Award for Art
Honorary Life Trustee, The Baltimore Museum of Art
1965 - 2008
Director of the Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
1974
Childe Hassam Purchase Award, National Institute of Arts & Letters
1983
Avery Chair, Bard College, Annandale- on- Hudson
2002
Life Time Achievement, Neuberger Museum
2006
Governors Awards, Baltimore, MD
2008
Died age 86, November 15, Timonium, NJ
HONORARY DEGREES: Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Goucher College, Towson, MD
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Towson State University, Towson, MD
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Dickinson College, Carlysle, PA

Exhibitions

2010
Abstract Expressionist New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2009
Breaking Through: The Abstract Expressionism of Grace Hartigan, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
Grace Hartigan (1922-2009) A Memorial Exhibition, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
2008
Grace Hartigan An Original, The Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX (solo)
2006 - 2007
Women Only, Smith – Kramer traveling show
2006
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1989, 1990,1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 (solo)
2005
New York School, Another View, Opalick Gallery, Albany, NY
2004
Narrative Visions, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2003
Painting Art History, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
ACA Gallery, New York, NY (also in 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997) (solo)

Public Collections

Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA
Birmingham Alabama Museum, Birmingham, AL
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

Literature

1998
Mark Rosenthal, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art
1997
Rosenzwieg, Phyllis, AB-EX Pointillism/1988-1993, Loyola College (exhibition catalogue)
1995
Murray, Elizabeth, Artist's Choice: Modern Women, Museum of Modern Art, (exhibition catalogue)
The New York Times, July 21, 1995
1994
Walsh, Peter, Grace Hartigan, ARTnews March 1994
1992
Schimmel, Paul, Hand-Painted Pop, American Art in Transition 1955-62
1990
Mattison, Robert S., Dr. Grace Hartigan, A Painter's World, Hudson
1985
Baker, Kenneth, Second Generation: Mannerism or Momentum?, Art in America,
Westfall, Steven, Then And Now: Six of the New York School Look Back, Art in America, June, 1985
1984
Schimmel, Paul, Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York 1955-1960, Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum (Exhibition catalogue)