Object Details
- Artist
- Grace Hartigan, born Newark, NJ 1922-died Timonium, MD 2008
- Gallery Label
- My male students at the time were obsessed with motorcycles--one even kept his in his studio--and out of sheer self-preservation I bought a poster of Brando on a bike and [of] Peter Fonda, some cycle magazines, pinned them on my painting wall and Modern Cycle was the result. It is, incidentally, one of my favorite paintings.
- --Grace Hartigan
- Grace Hartigan's work often combines the spontaneity and large scale of abstract painting with images drawn from popular culture or everyday experience. In Modern Cycle, we see fragments of people and motorbikes--a dynamic mix of human and mechanical, masculine and feminine.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David K. Anderson, Martha Jackson Memorial Collection
- 1967
- Object number
- 1980.137.33
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 78 1/2 x 108 1/2 in. (199.4 x 275.6 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, 3rd Floor, North Wing
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Figure
- Record ID
- saam_1980.137.33
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7f5983d28-087f-4f2a-a9b9-857581a9c30c
