Summer Street

1956

Grace Hartigan

Painter, American, 1922 - 2008

Broad strokes of paint create blocks of color in tones of emerald and celery green, topaz and sapphire blue, red, orange, bright yellow, white, and black in this abstract, vertical composition. A collection of peach-toned colors in the lower left quadrant could loosely represent a person. Other shapes give the impression of a room with a window and furniture, though details are left to our imagination.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dorothy C. Miller)

  • Dimensions

    overall: 204.47 × 147.96 cm (80 1/2 × 58 1/4 in.)
    framed: 206.53 × 152.24 × 4.13 cm (81 5/16 × 59 15/16 × 1 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.136.132

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1957 by Dorothy C. Miller [1904-2003], New York;[1] gift 10 November 1977 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Accordinig to her letter of 29 June 1977 to Jane Livingston (NGA curatorial files), Miller purchased the painting at the 1956-1957 Whitney annual exhibition. The artist's dealer was identified in the exhibition catalogue as Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York; it is not clear if Miller's purchase was through the dealer.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 14 November 1956 - 6 January 1957, no. 97.

1961

  • One-Man Exhibition [one of seven one-person exhibitions held in conjunction with and honoring artists represented in the1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture], Carnegie Institute, 27 October 1961 - 7 January 1962, no. 502.

1981

  • Grace Hartigan: Thirty Years of Painting, Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Mint Museum, Charlotte, 1981, no. 5.

1982

  • Grace Hartigan, Morris Louis, Clyfford Still, Anne Truitt, Baltimore Museum of Art, 14 October - 5 December 1982.

1984

  • Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach; Worcester Art Museum; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 1984-1986, no. 13, repro.

1987

  • Grace Hartigan: A Mini-Retrospective 1954-1984, Watkins Gallery, The American University, Washington, 15 February - 14 March 1987, no. 2.

1989

  • Grace Haritgan: Four Decades of Painting, Kouros Gallery, New York, 7 April - 6 May 1989.

2008

  • Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum, New York; Saint Louis Art Museum; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, 2008-2009, no. 39, repro.

2019

  • Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun: Reframing Abstract Expressionism, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, 2019, pl. 1.

Inscriptions

lower left: Hartigan 56.

Wikidata ID

Q46636190

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