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...Artist Grace Hartigan's pose and striped lounging robe [May 2] more than a coincidental resemblance to that of Matisse's mysterious model in The Purple Robe...
Your May 2 article on and pictures of Artists Frankenthaler, Hartigan and Mitchell are the straws that finally cracked my aching back. No one would pay money to hear a the simplest techniques of pictorial representation be given so much attention...
...critic, Grace Hartigan's painting seems to "venture frankly and deliberately into utter chaos." Nowadays, she gets her inspiration from turning away from the world and looking within. As a result, she says, her paintings are more "objective." "As soon as I left subject, I was able to go more deeply into content. Now I am trying to find my own internal world rather than the world that is across the street or down the stairs...
Blonde, intense Grace Hartigan, 38, has gone through more technical phases than either of her colleagues. She had her School of Paris period, her pure abstract period, and her time with the Old Masters. Then in 1955, "I began to look outside, to look around me, and I got involved with this whole area down here on the Lower East Side." As in City Life II, her colors are pounded into every available space, her strokes seem committed out of rage; the effect is one of extraordinary power...
...validity of their theme, they made a careful selection of artists, visited studios, often insisted on a particular painting. They decided on two free-form spontaneous doodles by the late Jackson Pollock, violent outbursts of vivid colors by Willem de Kooning, a melancholic mood piece by Grace Hartigan, harshly contrasting patterns by Richard Pousette-Dart. They added four morbidly humorous, squashed-face portraits by France...