​​Grace Hartigan (USA, 1922–2008)

 

Chinatown  (oil on canvas, 1956)

On Orchard Street (1957)

oil, paper and printed paper collage on paper 55.9 x 73.7 cm

Grace Hartigan (March 28, 1922 – November 15, 2008) was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. 

Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another in their artistic endeavors, included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Frank O'Hara. Her paintings are held by numerous major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As director of the Maryland Institute College of Art's Hoffberger School of Painting, she influenced numerous young artists.

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George McNeil ~ Abstract expressionist painter

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A pioneer Abstract Expressionist of the New York School, McNeil [1908-1995] had over forty solo exhibitions during his lifetime. Between the ’40s and until the mid ’60s his art was decidedly abstract but it was always joined to metaphor. George McNeil had a career that spanned the entire postwar American art era. McNeil attended Pratt Institute and the Art Students’ League, where he studied with Jan Matulka.

Abstract Expressionism: Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)

Rhapsody (1958)
oil on panel 182.9 x 81.3 cm

Botanic Garden (1942) 

oil on board laid down on panel 55.8 x 76.2 cm

Towering Spaciousness, 1956

Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and he is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism.

• Early Life and Education:

  • Born in Weißenburg, Bavaria, on March 21, 1880, to Theodor Friedrich Hofmann and Franziska Manger Hofmann.
  • Educated near Munich, he was active in the early twentieth-century European avant-garde.

• Artistic Journey:

  • Brought a deep understanding and synthesis of Symbolism, Neo-impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism when he emigrated to the United States in 1932.
  • His painting is characterized by rigorous concern with pictorial structure and unity, spatial illusionism, and bold use of color for expressive means.

• Influence and Recognition:

  • Critic Clement Greenberg considered Hofmann’s first New York solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century in 1944 (along with Jackson Pollock’s in late 1943) as a breakthrough in painterly versus geometric abstraction that heralded abstract expressionism.
  • Major retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1957) and Museum of Modern Art (1963) solidified his recognition.
  • His works are in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide.

• Influential Art Teacher:

  • Established an art school in Munich in 1915, building on the ideas of Cézanne, Cubists, and Kandinsky.
  • After relocating to the United States, he reopened the school in both New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts, until he retired from teaching in 1958 to paint full-time.
  • Influenced post-war American avant-garde artists and theories of Greenberg.

• Key Tenets:

  • Push/pull spatial theories.
  • Belief that abstract art has its origin in nature.
  • Emphasis on the spiritual value of art.

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Henry Villierme (*)

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Hidden Valley

The Aqueduct

Henry Pierre Villierme (born 1928) is an American painter associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme is considered one of the "Second Generation" members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme first rose to prominence with a series of successful exhibitions in the late 1950s. From the 1960s – 1980s he continued to paint and sculpt in his studio, and in the late 1980s returned to public exhibitions.

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