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GRACE HARTIGAN The Hero Leaves His Ship I-IV.
Set of 4 lithographs, 1960. 655x500 mm; 25 3/4x19 3/4 inches (sheets), full margins. Each signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin (2 numbered from an edition of 26, one numbered from an edition of 27 and one numbered from an edition of 28). Published by ULAE, West Islip, with the blind stamp lower left. Very good impressions of these extremely scarce, early prints.
Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) was among the foremost female artists of the Abstract Expressionists--along with Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler--and a centerpiece of the lively, bohemian New York school that included her friends Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Franz Kline. She was the only woman artist in the MOMA's seminal 1958-59 exhibition The New American Painting which visited 8 European countries over the course of a year, showcasing 17 different American artists and forever changing the way Europeans viewed American art.
During the 1960s, she relocated to Baltimore and, from 1965, worked at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she was the director of the Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting. Sparks 1-4.
