East Side Sunday
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
“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.
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)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
East Side Sunday
Date
1956
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
80 x 82 in. (203.2 x 208.3 cm)
Signatures
Lower right: "Hartigan '56"
Credit Line
Gift of James I. Merrill
Accession Number
56.180
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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