The New York Times logo The New York Times 12 months ago

Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies

Grace Hartigan, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture, leading some critics to see in them prefigurings of Pop Art, died on Saturday in Baltimore. Full Article at The New York Times

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  1. Her art was marked by a willingness to employ a variety of styles in a modernist idiom, to go back and forth from art-historical references to pop-culture references to autobiographical material
    SOURCE: The New York Times 12 months ago
  2. She wasn't afraid to stop painting the type of work that was greatly admired by collectors and museums, and move on to a new style ... She worked tremendously hard, and her work continued to change and evolve. That wasn't true of all of her contemporaries.
    SOURCE: Baltimore Sun 12 months ago
  3. She was, I would say, the woman who broke the glass [ceiling] then existent for women artists in the 50s
    SOURCE: New York Observer 12 months ago
  4. She is one of the seminal figures of Abstract Expressionism, a real breakthrough artist
    SOURCE: Baltimore Sun 12 months ago
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