![]() ![]() ![]() “Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962 from a barbiturate overdose inspired Marilyn (1962.) Grace floated vivid details in a giddily feminine pink and purple haze the actress’s gleaming teeth in an open-mouthed smile (from a Life photograph), a wavy blonde lock of hair, a blue eye, white klieg lights, and a gesturing hand emerging from a ruffled sleeve (based on a photograph of a detail from a fifteenth century fresco). She also kept a photograph of Marilyn with author Isak Dinesen (taken in 1959), pinned to her wall for inspiration. In a new biography, Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter, Cathy Curtis reveals that Hartigan’s interest in Marilyn dated back to the summer of 1957, when she spotted her on vacation with husband Arthur Miller in the Hamptons. One of her most famous works, ‘Marilyn’, was created after the death of MM. Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s. ![]()
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