Grace Hartigan
Interior, ‘The Creeks’
1956
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Grace Hartigan
Interior, ‘The Creeks’
1956
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 90 7/16 × 96 1/4 in. (229.7 × 244.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip Johnson, New Canaan, Connecticut
Object Number
1983.45
"Interior, 'The Creeks'" by Grace Hartigan, 1957. Oil on canvas. Hartigan painted this work while renting a guesthouse at The Creeks, a lavish 57-acre estate in East Hampton, Long Island. Here she balances abstract forms with evocative shapes. Black lines and patches of color suggest the furniture and architectural details of a room. This work is characteristic of Hartigan's unique style, influenced by Abstract Expressionism and her colleagues from New York's art community.
Baltimore Museum of Art, by gift, 1983; Philip Cortelyou Johnson (1906-2005), New Canaan, CT
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, 'Grace Hartigan,' September 30, 2001 - January 6, 2002.
Gwen Chanzit, Denver Art Museum, "Her Action: Women of Abstract Expressionism," June 12-September 25, 2016.
Gwen Chanzit, Denver Art Museum, "Her Action: Women of Abstract Expressionism," June 12-September 25, 2016.
"Franz Kline," BMA Today, Spring 2009, p. 8, ill.
Marter, Joan. "Women of Abstract Expressionism," Denver: Denver Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2016, p.114.
Gabriel, Mary. "Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art," New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Inscribed: Signature, recto, l/r: "Hartigan '57 EH"
