Grace Hartigan
Red Bowl
1952
Scroll
Grace Hartigan
Red Bowl
1952
Physical Qualities
Oil on hardboard, Framed: 23 1/2 × 25 5/8 × 1 1/2 in. (59.7 × 65.1 × 3.8 cm.)
Sight: 18 × 20 in. (45.7 × 50.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Herman Jervis, New York, in Memory of Dorothy B. Jervis
Object Number
1986.194
"Red Bowl" by Grace Hartigan, 1953. Oil on hardboard. Created at a pivotal moment early in Grace Hartigan’s career, this painting reflects her signature blend of figuration and abstraction.
Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1986; Herman Jervis (1909-2004), New York, NY by descent (from his wife); 1980; Dorothy Bing Jervis (1909-1980), New York, NY likely by bequest, 1959; Alexander M. Bing (1878-1959), Provincetown, MA and New York, likely by purchase, c. 1953
"New Paintings: George Hartigan," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Feb 2-20, 1954.
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Virginia Anderson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists," October 6, 2019 — July 5, 2020
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Virginia Anderson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists," October 6, 2019 — July 5, 2020
Hartigan, Grace, ed. William T. La Moy and Joseph P. McCaffrey, "The Journals of Grace Hartigan: 1951-1955," Syracuse University Press: 2009, p 85-86, 95, 125.
Inscribed: Signature, recto, l/r: "Hartigan '53"
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 08
