Harvester
Artist: Grace Hartigan (American, 1922-2008)
Date: 1966
Dimensions:
Painting: 68 1/8 × 50 in. (173 × 127 cm)
Frame: 70 × 52 × 1 3/4 in. (177.8 × 132.1 × 4.4 cm)
Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2022.23
Label Text:Though she was an indomitable force in Abstract Expressionism, Grace Hartigan never fully abandoned her interest in the figure. By the 1960s, she entered a period of stylistic exploration and sought to discover a distinct artistic voice. Hartigan described her new personal approach: “I now hope to triumph; to bring to each painting as much clarity, beauty, and even ecstasy as I am able. The scream has become a song.”
Concentrating on the surface of the canvas, Hartigan builds up and rubs away thin layers of paint before adding thick black outlines and swaths of opaque autumnal color, resulting in a stained-glass effect.
Concentrating on the surface of the canvas, Hartigan builds up and rubs away thin layers of paint before adding thick black outlines and swaths of opaque autumnal color, resulting in a stained-glass effect.
DescriptionThe painting is an abstract image mostly in tones of yellow and red ochre with some black.
On view