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Restless Ambition - Grace Hartigan, Painter (Hardcover)
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Restless Ambition - Grace Hartigan, Painter (Hardcover)
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This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces
her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her
plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist
in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and
subject matter. Along the way, there were multiple affairs, four
troubled marriages, a long battle with alcoholism, and a chilly
relationship with her only child. Attempting to channel her vague
ambitions after an early marriage, Grace struggled to master the
basics of drawing in night-school classes. She moved to New York in
her early twenties and befriended Willem de Kooning, Jackson
Pollock, and other artists who were pioneering Abstract
Expressionism. Although praised for the coloristic brio of her
abstract paintings, she began working figuratively, a move that was
much criticized but ultimately vindicated when the Museum of Modern
Art purchased her painting The Persian Jacket in 1953. By the
mid-fifties, she freely combined abstract and representational
elements. Grace-who signed her paintings "Hartigan"- was a
full-fledged member of the "men's club" that was the 1950s art
scene. Featured in Time, Newsweek, Life, and Look, she was the only
woman in MoMA's groundbreaking 12 Americans exhibition in 1956, and
the youngest artist-and again, only woman-in The New American
Painting, which toured Europe in 1958-1959. Two years later she
moved to Baltimore, where she became legendary for her signature
tough-love counsel to her art school students. Grace continued to
paint throughout her life, seeking-for better or worse-something
truer and fiercer than beauty.
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