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Restless ambition : Grace Hartigan, painter / Cathy Curtis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Curtis, Cathy (Writer on art), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- Women painters--United States--Biography.
- Women painters.
- Hartigan, Grace.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first biography of Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) traces her rise from self-taught painter to art-world fame in New York, her plunge into obscurity after moving to Baltimore, her constant efforts at artistic reinvention, and her tumultuous personal life, including four troubled marriages and a chilly relationship with her only child.
- Contents:
- Cover
- RESTLESS AMBITION: GRACE HARTIGAN, PAINTER
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- How I Came to Write This Book
- Prologue: The Weekend That Changed Her Life
- Part One: Escape Artist (1922-1944)
- Chapter 1: Dreaming
- Chapter 2: Searching
- Chapter 3: Learning
- Part Two: New York Adventure (1945-1949)
- Chapter 4: Risking
- Chapter 5: Connecting
- Chapter 6: Coping
- Part Three: Rising Star (1950-1955)
- Chapter 7: Struggling
- Chapter 8: Launching
- Chapter 9: Succeeding
- Chapter 10: Asserting
- Part Four: Fame (1956-1960)
- Chapter 11: Celebrating
- Chapter 12: Swerving (1958-1960)
- Part Five: Beginning Again in Baltimore (1961-2008)
- Chapter 13: Drifting
- Chapter 14: Teaching
- Chapter 15: Unraveling
- Chapter 16: Renewing
- Chapter 17: Prevailing
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Prologue
- Chapter 12: Swerving
- Bibliography
- Oral history interviews, archives of American art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Radio, Film, Video, and Unpublished Interviews and Lectures
- Books, Exhibition Catalogues, and Dissertations
- Periodicals and Newspapers
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-939452-0
- 0-19-939451-2
- OCLC:
- 900081264
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