Summer Street, 1956

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 204.47 × 147.96 cm (80 1/2 × 58 1/4 in.)

framed: 206.53 × 152.24 × 4.13 cm (81 5/16 × 59 15/16 × 1 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dorothy C. Miller)

Accession Number

2014.136.132

Artists / Makers

Grace Hartigan (painter) American, 1922 - 2008

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Inscription

lower left: Hartigan 56.

Provenance

Purchased 1957 by Dorothy C. Miller [1904-2003], New York;[1] gift 10 November 1977 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Accordinig to her letter of 29 June 1977 to Jane Livingston (NGA curatorial files), Miller purchased the painting at the 1956-1957 Whitney annual exhibition. The artist's dealer was identified in the exhibition catalogue as Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York; it is not clear if Miller's purchase was through the dealer.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Miller, Dorothy C.

Exhibition History

1956: Annual Exhibition: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 14 November 1956 - 6 January 1957, no. 97.

1961: One-Man Exhibition [one of seven one-person exhibitions held in conjunction with and honoring artists represented in the1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture], Carnegie Institute, 27 October 1961 - 7 January 1962, no. 502.

1981: Grace Hartigan: Thirty Years of Painting, Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Mint Museum, Charlotte, 1981, no. 5.

1982: Grace Hartigan, Morris Louis, Clyfford Still, Anne Truitt, Baltimore Museum of Art, 14 October - 5 December 1982.

1984: Action/Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955-60, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach; Worcester Art Museum; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 1984-1986, no. 13, repro.

1987: Grace Hartigan: A Mini-Retrospective 1954-1984, Watkins Gallery, The American University, Washington, 15 February - 14 March 1987, no. 2.

1989: Grace Haritgan: Four Decades of Painting, Kouros Gallery, New York, 7 April - 6 May 1989.

2008: Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum, New York; Saint Louis Art Museum; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, 2008-2009, no. 39, repro.