Grace Hartigan
Butterfly Woman
Offset Lithograph
36 x 25 inches
Edition of 30
Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.
From the Artist
No rules...I must be free to paint anything I feel.
—Excerpted fromhttps://www.moma.org/artists/2520, accessed 8-20-2021
Unlike many of her generation's artists, Hartigan never developed a trademark style. Hartigan's life and work are replete with impulses to seek, question, and change. She shifted between abstraction and representation, defying art world standards by include topics that were considered taboo in the early 1950s, such as people, clichés, and snatches from everyday life. In 1950, Hartigan became known for her large-scale, sensual abstract paintings. Unhappy with the status quo, she began studying Spanish Old Master painters such as Diego Velasquez and Francisco de Goya in 1952.
—Adapted and excerpted fromhttps://www.moma.org/artists/2520, accessed 8-20-2021
