A
tribute to Grace Hartigan, an
Abstract Expressionist painter, the documentray
explores her artistic career from the early stages
to our days. Hartigan gained her reputation as
part of the New York School of artists and painters
that emerged in Manhattan during the 1940s and
50s. Her friends included Jackson Pollock,
Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler,
Willem and Elaine de
Kooning, Frank O’Hara,
and many other painters, poets and writers
Walter
Silver, Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan and Larry
Rivers at Coney Island
Produced
by Checkerboard Film Foundation
and Shurefire Productions, the
film is directed by the acclaimed Scottish filmmaker
Murray Grigor and shot by Persona’s
Yan
Vizinberg.
