Essex and Hester (Red), 1958

oil on canvas

overall: 134.6 x 211.5 cm (53 x 83 1/4 in.)

framed: 137.5 x 214.6 x 3.8 cm (54 1/8 x 84 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

1996.81.3

Grace Hartigan (painter) American, 1922 - 2008

lower right: Hartigan 58

(Gres Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Dr. Winston Price, Baltimore; purchased 1962 by Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift 1996 to NGA.

[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 240.

Meyerhoff, Robert E.

1958: Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958-1959, no. 90.

1964: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland, 1964.

1966: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.

1973: Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1973.

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 30, color repro.

2009: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010, pl. 41.

2014: Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 26.

1996: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 30.