Hartigan, Grace (1922–)

American painter. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Mar 28, 1922; dau. of Matthew Hartigan and Grace (Orvis) Hartigan; studied privately with Isaac Lane Muse, 1942–46; m. Robert Jachens, May 10, 1941 (div. 1947); m. Harry Jackson (artist), Mar 1949 (annulled 1950); m. Robert Keene (gallery owner), 1958 (div. 1960); m. Dr. Winston H. Price (epidemiologist), Dec 24, 1960 (died 1981); children: (1st m.) Jeffrey.

A disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, emerged from New York School of abstract expressionists to become the most visible woman painter in US during late 1950s; was the only woman represented in Museum of Modern Art's exhibition, "Twelve Americans" (1956), and in its international touring show, "The New American Painting (1958–59)"; works were purchased by MoMA, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney; though her popularity waned with Minimalism and Pop art movements of 1960s and 1970s, was rediscovered with the arrival of the "new figurative" and new expressionist painting of 1980s; works include Secuda Esa Bruja (1949), The King Is Dead (1950), Bathers (1953), The Persian Jacket (1952), Grand Street Brides (1954), Masquerade (1954), Sweden (1959), Dido (1960), William of Orange (1962), Mountain Woman (1964), Reisterstown Mall (1965), Saint George and the Dragon (1970), Another Birthday (1971), Autumn Shop Window (1972), Lexington Market (1980), Theodora (1983) and West Broadway (1989).

See also Robert Saltonstall Mattison, Grace Hartigan: A Painter's World (1990); and Women in World History.