Baltimore Street
- Date
- 1963
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- probably made in
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 60 x 42 in. (152.4 x 106.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of John M. Shoenberg
- Rights
- © Estate of Grace Hartigan
- Object Number
- 111:1970
NOTES
Gestural swaths of green, magenta, orange, and blue dance across the surface of this canvas. These colors form a cluster of human figures, perhaps hurrying along a street in Baltimore. Grace Hartigan’s painting style is characterized by seemingly contradictory elements, as she stated in 1956: “I want an art that is not ‘abstract’ and not ‘realistic.’ ” Her works feature complex surface designs that often reference the city or the natural world. This example was painted soon after Hartigan’s 1960 move to Baltimore from New York, where she had been a central figure in the Abstract Expressionist community of artists.
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