Object Details
- Artist
- Grace Hartigan, born Newark, NJ 1922-died Timonium, MD 2008
- Exhibition Label
- Engine parts, a headlight, gas tank, and handle bars are intermingled with a zippered motorcycle jacket sleeve, a rider, women’s legs, and other less identifiable forms in Modern Cycle. Hartigan, then a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, explained her choice of subject: “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 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.”
- Modern Masters: Midcentury Abstraction from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2008
- 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
- 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
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