Goodreads asked Cathy Curtis:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Cathy Curtis In the fall of 2010, while searching for a subject to write about, I visited the exhibition Abstract Expressionist New York at the Museum of Modern Art. This was a show with extraordinary canvases by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and other famous artists. I rounded a corner and saw a brilliant painting called Shinnecock Canal. Whose work was this? When I leaned forward to read the label, I learned that the artist was Grace Hartigan. I had interviewed her more than 20 years earlier and remembered her larger-than-life presence. Once I discovered that she had died in 2008 and that no one had published a biography, I began my research.

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