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Hartigan, Grace

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Personal name headingHartigan, Grace
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See alsoAlternate identity: Hartigan, George, 1922-2008
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1922-03-28
Death date2008-11-15
Place of birthNewark (N.J.)
Place of deathBaltimore (Md.)
Found inSchuyler, J. Salute, 1960.
Her Hartigan, thirty years of painting ... 1981: t.p. (Hartigan) p. 18, etc. (Grace Hartigan; b. 1922)
Grove art online, June 7, 2004 (Hartigan, Grace; b. Newark, N.J., Mar. 28, 1922)
New York times WWW site, Nov. 18, 2008 (Grace Hartigan; b. 1922, Newark; d. Saturday [Nov. 15, 2008], Baltimore, aged 86; 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)
Gissler.com WWW site, viewed June 6, 2023 (Grace Hartigan; born 1922; ; second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter; in order to neutralize her work from a gender bias she signed her paintings George Hartigan, that is until she started to receive critical acclaim and her work was included in major gallery and museum exhibitors)
Lavazzi, Thomas. Lucky Pierre gets into finger paint: Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara's Oranges, in Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, 2000, via WWW, viewed June 6, 2023 (Grace Hartigan; born 1922; briefly used the pen name George; she claimed this was a tribute to George Sand and George Eliot; The Oranges (1952) is Grace Hartigan's and Frank O'Hara's series of collaborative poems/paintings, exhibited at Tibor de Nagy Gallery (who also published the poems) in 1953)
Gabriel, Mary. Ninth street women, 2018, via WWW, viewed June 13, 2023 (Grace Hartigan; used the nom de brosse George Hartigan for her initial exhibition; she claimed this choice was part of the camp culture at John Myers's gallery, and a tribute to George Sand and George Eliot, not an attempt to obscure her gender)