© Estate of Grace Hartigan
On view
Modern and Contemporary Art
Theodora Walton William Walton III Pavilion
Theodora Walton William Walton III Pavilion
Wilma,
1965
Grace Hartigan, 1922–2008, born Newark, NJ; died Baltimore, MD; active New York, NY, and Baltimore
y1966-31
Hartigan played a pivotal role as a post–World War II feminist artist and teacher. She moved to New York in 1945, at a moment when the city was on the verge of becoming a thriving center of twentieth-century American art. Her success blossomed in the 1950s when she was included in two of the decade’s defining exhibitions—12 Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the European touring exhibition The New American Painting. Life magazine described her as “the most celebrated of the young American women painters.” The year she made Wilma, Hartigan was appointed director of the graduate painting program at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she would teach for the next four decades.
Information
Title
Wilma
Dates
1965
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
153 x 122.5 cm (60 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.)
frame: 154 x 124.4 x 4 cm (60 5/8 x 49 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Edward J. Hoffman
Object Number
y1966-31
Signatures
Signed and dated bottom right: Hartigan / '65
Culture
Type
Subject
Acquired by Dr. Edward J. Hoffman, Baltimore (MD), by 1966; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1966.
