Grace Hartigan’s Artistic Kinship with Midcentury Poets

By 1954, artist Grace Hartigan no longer doubted herself. Her bold vigorous paintings, which mixed abstraction with figuration at a time when both methods were strictly separated from one another, were finally receiving an abundance of critical and commercial attention. A string of solo exhibitions at Tibor de Nagy had attracted substantial crowds. The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney had acquired pivotal pieces, and her works were selling well, sometimes better than those by the Abstract Ex