1 (Black Crows) This work shows Hartigan coming into her own as an artist, combining both painterly brushwork and her burgeoning interest in figurative art. For his 14 poems, she created a painting for each, incorporating text from each poem into her design. Grace Hartigan, born in Newark, New Jersey, received training in mechanical drawing at the Newark College of Engineering and was employed during World War II as a drafting technician. Thus, when Grace Hartigan painted Oranges, the series that corresponds to O’Hara’s twelve pastorals by that name written some years earlier, she used the poet’s words in the most ingenious ways, sometimes crowding a whole poem onto a corner of the canvas, sometimes spreading just a few words of text across the surface so as to create patterns of great tension and excitement. A member of the New York avant-garde and a close friend of artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Hartigan was deeply influenced by the ideas of abstract expressionism.However, as her career progressed, Hartigan sought to combine abstraction with representation in her art. 1922) and Frank O'Hara's (1926-1966) early 1950's series of collaborative poem/paintings. 1922) Black Crows (Oranges No. Grace Hartigan, at twenty-nine, had already had a well-received solo show of her vigorous abstractions. Hartigan and Muse, now a couple, lived together in New York City. Summary of Grace Hartigan. Grace Hartigan recently provided the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library with this personal account of her collaboration with Frank O'Hara on the Oranges series: To the New York avant-garde in the late 40s and early 50s, fame or historical significance seemed impossible. (1) From a Bakhtinian point of view, the aesthetic value of this work lies to a great extent in its archaeologic aspects: as cultural artifacts, Oranges bears the dialogic trace of psycho-social conflicts within specific artistic communities. Poetry Thursday - Frank O'Hara (and oranges) Fifty years after his death aged 40, Poets in the City and the Aurora Orchestra held a commemorative evening of words and music - and images - at King's Place. Grace Hartigan was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 28, 1922. The Oranges (1952) is Grace Hartigan's (b.

), an American painter best known for her Abstract Expressionist works of the 1950s, which gradually incorporated recognizable imagery. In one of her best-known works The Oranges, No. Grace Hartigan, (born March 28, 1922, Newark, N.J., U.S.—died Nov. 15, 2008, Baltimore, MD. 2000-001-061 1), 1958, oil on paper, 45 x 35 inches (114.3 x 88.9 cm). Critics and historians have called Grace Hartigan both a second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter and a forebear of Pop art, though she was not satisfied with either categorization. See more ideas about Artist, Art and Abstract. In 1941, she moved to Los Angeles, where she took her first drawing classes.

The Oranges, No. Grace Hartigan, Black Crows (Oranges No. She gave this personal account of her collaboration with Frank O'Hara on the Oranges series: Grace Hartigan and Frank O'Hara in Her Essex Street Studio : Black Crows (Oranges No. Grace Hartigan Biography In one of her best-known works The Oranges, No.