Meet the Artist: Grace Hartigan

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Title
Meet the Artist: Grace Hartigan
Description
Grace Hartigan grew up in New Jersey, where she married the boy next door after graduating from high school. They ended up penniless in Los Angeles, however, and Hartigan returned to the East Coast pregnant and alone. In 1948 she was mesmerized and fascinated by a Jackson Pollock exhibition and lived briefly on Long Island with the artist and his wife. She worked odd jobs in New York through the 1950s to pay for paint. In 1959, Hartigan married Dr. Winston Price and moved with him to Baltimore, where she worked in a large studio in Fells Point for decades. (Mattison, Grace Hartigan: A Painters World, 1990)
Identifier
SM07
Date
1990
Creator
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Rights
Copyright Smithsonian American Art Museum 1990
Format
Youtube Streaming video
Extent
00:04:45