Publications

Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) is renowned for her formative participation in the Abstract Expressionist movement. Hartigan began making watercolor collages, which were unique to her practice, in the 1960s and the medium became so important to her that she called it a “second expression." Watercolor was particularly suitable to her at this time because it resembled the manner in which she was using thin, transparent oil glazes in her recent canvases. Hartigan's watercolor collages combine figurative content with her signature sensibility of vibrant color, active gesture, and painterly freedom.

"Articulations Collage" (1968) references a series of Anatomy paintings that the artist made in 1968-1969, each which feature Hartigan’s amalgamation of representational images that would come to define her paintings in the mid 60s and 70s.