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"I didn't choose painting," Grace Hartigan once told an interviewer, "It chose me. I didn't have any talent. I just had genius." I came to Grace Hartigan through her association with the poet Frank O'Hara. Full Article at Eye Level
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In August 1958, the outraged critic of a Spanish newspaper huffed that two canvases in the "New American Painting" show, touring Europe that year, had been so big that the lintel to the door of Madrid's National Museum of Contemporary Art had had to be... Full Article at The Independent
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In the 1950s, Grace Hartigan was the most celebrated woman painter in America, according to Life magazine. She modestly concurred: "I was a household name." Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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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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"Her work is represented in every modern major museum collection of American paintings," says Jay Fisher, deputy director of curatorial affairs for the BMA. "No one would ever consider her a regional artist. She just happened to be working in Baltimore. Full Article at Baltimore Sun
