GRACE HARTIGAN
About the Artist
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. In explaining the content and purpose of her work, Hartigan once said: “perhaps the subject of my art is like the definition of humor—emotional pain remembered in tranquility.” Hartigan painted intensely colored, gestural figures, inspired by coloring books, film, canonical painting, and advertising. She was a disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and also studied with Isaac Lane Muse. She gained early critical attention when in 1950, she was included in Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro’s “New Talents” exhibition. In 1958, Hartigan was hailed by Life magazine as one of the best young female American painters.
Artist CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Grace Hartigan: A Survey, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Grace Hartigan: The Late Paintings, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD (also exhibitions in 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984,
1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) 2015 Grace Hartigan 1960-1965, the Perry Collection, X Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
Grace Hartigan: Myths and Malls, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY 2014 Grace Hartigan: A Survey, Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda, MD
2013
TEXTURES: The Written Word in Contemporary Art, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
2011
Fragments 1915-2011, Modern and Contemporary Collage, ACA Galleries, New York, NY 2009 Grace Hartigan: (1922-2008) A Life in Painting, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2008 Grace Hartigan: An Original, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Painting Art History, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA and Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2003
5 Decades of Large Scale Paintings, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York ACA Gallery, New York, NY (1991, 1992, 1994, 1997, 2001)
2001
Paintings from Popular Culture, Susquehanna Museum
AB-EX Pointillism/1988-1993, Loyola College Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2000
Lawrence Gallery, and Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
1997
Hartigan’s Women, The Robeson Center Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
The Art Gallery at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Allen Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
Grace Hartigan and the Poets, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY (1984, 1986)
1989
Grace Hartigan, A Mini Retrospective, 1954-1984, Watkins Gallery, The American University, Washington DC 1988 DollyFitterman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1987
Van Wickle Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 1984 Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1983
Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1981 Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
1980
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Myers Gallery, State Universtiy of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
Universtiy of Maryland Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1978
Genesis Gallery, Ltd., New York, NY, (1977)
1975
American University, Washington, DC
William Zierler Gallery, New York, NY
1976
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI, (1969, 1972, 1974)
1970
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (1962, 1964, 1967) 1967 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Selection made by Harold Rosenberg & Saul Bellow 1959 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957)
1955 Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Elaine, Let’s Get the Hell Out of Here, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY
The New York School (1940’s-1980’s), Levis Fine Art, New York, NY
Collage: Made in America, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Human Interest: Portraits fromthe Whitney’s Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Women of Abstract Expressionism, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina;
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Under Glass: Master Works on Paper, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, CA
Test Show, Levis Fine Art, New York, NY
Women! Women! (Of the 50’s), Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
Works On Paper, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2014
Shaping A Collection; Five Decades of Gifts, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection, de Young, San Francisco, CA
organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction, 1949-1960, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Netherlands The Amusing Style, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2011
5 Maryland Icons, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters and Poets, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Abstract Expressionist New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2008
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2006 - 2007
Women Only, Smith – Kramer Traveling Exhibitions
2005
Another View, Opalick Gallery, Albany, NY, New York School
2004
Narrative Visions, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1999
In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA American Century, Part II, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1998
Robert and Jane MeyerhoffColletion, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1997
Forty Years of ULAE, Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1996
The Dialectic of Line, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1995
Summer ‘96 Part 2 - The Painters, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD Artist’s Choice - Modern Women, curated by Elizabeth Murray, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1993
Hand-Painted Pop, American Art in Transition 1955-62, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA;
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1988 - 1989 The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
1987 Color: Pure and Simple, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1984 - 1986
Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-1960, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Worcester Art
Museum, Worcester, MA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1985 - 1960
Points of View: Four Painters, 1985-86, Traveling I.C.I show
1985
The Gathering of the Avant-Garde, The Lower East Side, New York, NY
The New Figure, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Survival of the Fittest. Ingber Gallery, New York, NY
1983
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY
E. de Kooning, Greene, Hartigan, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1982
Hartigan, Louis, Still, Truitt, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Americans, The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Women of the Americas, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, 1940 - 1980, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1980
Modern American Painting, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Plus Four, Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
The Fifties Aspect of Painting in New York, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Poets and Painters, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1975
Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
1974
Frank O’Hara, A Poet Among Painters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969
20th Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1964
A Decade of New Talent, American Federation of Arts, traveling exhibition
Figuration and Defiguration, Museum of Ghent, Belgium
1960
Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Sixty American Painters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1959
Contemporary American Art, World’s Fair, Brussels
Documenta II, Kassel, Germany
1958 - 1959
The New American Painting, International Council, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY,
and eight European cities
1957
Artists of the New York School, Second Generation, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Fourth International Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Third International Art Exhibition, New Delhi, India
1951
9th Street Show (with Pollock, Kline, de Kooning), New York, NY
1950
Twelve Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Talent 1950, Kootz Gallery, New York, NY
AWARDS
2006 Governors Awards, Baltimore, MD
2002 Life Time Achievement, Neuberger Museum
1974 Childe Hassam Purchase Award, National Institute of Arts & Letters 1957 Recipient: Mademoiselle Magazine Merit Award for Art
Honorary Life Trustee, The Baltimore Museum of Art