Ab-Ex Painter Grace Hartigan Dies At 86

“Her bold canvases made her a bright star in the 1950s New York art world, but she ‘sank from view faster than the Titanic’ when she moved to Baltimore, The New York Times said. Grace Hartigan, who ultimately found a second career offering her wisdom and advice to generations of young painters at the Maryland Institute College of Art, died of liver failure today at the a Lorien Mays Chapel in Timonium nursing home.”