Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

＂At last, a life of the incomparable Grace! Cathy Curtis’s biography is as colorful, tough-minded, and incisive as Hartigan’s work at its best＂

Patricia Albers, author of Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life

＂A fascinating look at the life of Grace Hartigan, a tough Abstract Expressionist woman artist who drank with the best of the men and had a sexual appetite that equaled the alcohol. Ambitious, driven, and wrestling inner demons, she abandons her only child for what she believed to be necessary for her life as an artist. Cathy Curtis deals with it all in her inclusive and well-documented book＂

Audrey Flack

＂Cathy Curtis brings us a driven, determined, and dedicated Grace Hartigan who, as a rebellious young artist, attained a rare degree of success in the 1950s among the male abstract expressionist painters of the New York School. This expertly researched biography gives us a vivid, insightful, and fascinating glimpse into the world of the well-known artists and writers---including Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Frank O’Hara---whom Hartigan knew so well＂