East Side Sunday
Grace Hartigan
Contemporary Art
“I think a view from my window would make an interesting composition,” Grace Hartigan wrote the year she painted East Side Sunday. At the time, Hartigan was living and working on the Lower East Side, a colorful neighborhood filled with tiny shops huddled among fruit stands, pickle and herring vendors, antique storefronts, and bakeries. The energetic brushstrokes, vibrant bursts of color, and stirring shapes in this painting render the artist’s observations with an imaginative and fragmented sense of movement.
MEDIUM
Oil on canvas
DATES
1956
DIMENSIONS
80 x 82 in. (203.2 x 208.3 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Lower right: "Hartigan '56"
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
56.180
CREDIT LINE
Gift of James I. Merrill
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Grace Hartigan (American, 1922–2008). East Side Sunday, 1956. Oil on canvas, 80 x 82 in. (203.2 x 208.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James I. Merrill, 56.180. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 56.180_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 56.180_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011
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© Estate of Grace Hartigan
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