Philip Hartigan
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Philip Hartigan
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I'm a printmaker and painter, born in the UK, now in Tucson, USA. Former art journalist (Hyperallergic, Time Out), art teacher (Columbia College Chicago), and lifelong cat lover.
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Well, I moved to Spain in August. This is the view from the roof of the house we bought. But today I'm thinking proudly of all the people who took to the streets in my beloved Chicago, and across the USA... #nokings
Just want to say I love your writing and videos (from a fellow sometimes-hater)...
"I quite like soccer."
"Oh, you know who ELSE liked well-drilled groups of men in identical uniforms??"
So everyone should sit at home, allow their neighbors to be arrested, watch it all on TV, and then ...what? How would this have worked in Poland-1980s, Berlin 1989?
Who's rioting!? These are people standing against tyranny and for democracy.
Played so well against Barça, guess this was 1 game too far.
Englishman living in the USA for 25 years now: Brits use the C word like "jerk" or "buddy", this caused me many problems when I first got to the USA...
The last painting I was working on before eye surgery. Oil on canvas, 48 inches x 60 inches.
I had to take a break from my phone for a few weeks after an eye operation. On the plus side: my Bond villain eye patch...
Tucson's latest and possibly biggest mural, celebrating 100 years of the rodeo (which is still a big annual event here).
Back from Mexico City and working in the studio on this big oil painting (4 feet x 5 feet).
Masks and costumes in the National Museum of Popular Arts, Mexico City.
The appropriately named enbrown, perhaps ...
Just got back from a fabulous week in Mexico City. Here's a drawing I made in the gardens of the Frida Kahlo house and museum.
Plaza de Coyoacan, in the southern part of Mexico City, 7pm. We've been here for five days and love it...
Hand wiping a copper plate etching before printing it=messy hand.
A shrine on a window ledge in the Barrio Viejo in Tucson. The painted adobe is typical of the lovely historic houses here.
Art Miami happening now, and I've just realized that it's 17 years since I first showed my work there! Crikey, where does the time go?
We visited the wonderful pueblo remains at Casa Grande, AZ, last Friday, and witnessed ritual singing and dancing by members of the Tohono O'odham people.
Here's an etching made by a student in a class I taught a few years ago, inspired by the work of the great German artist/printmaker Kathe Köllwitz...
This is something I made a while ago: two etchings on heavy Hahnemule paper, folded into a double slit accordion book. Now part of the Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection in Chicago.
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Jacques Hnizdovsky, "Open Nut" (1967)
I just found my mini 'art materials for traveling' kit from a few years ago: Altoids tin with watercolor tube, brush, q tip, water soluble crayon, needle and thread, glue stick, blending stump. Ready for drawing, painting, & sewing mini books.
This etching by Picasso was one of the works that pushed me to study printmaking in the 1990s. I wanted to know how you could make such a range of deep, rich black tones from something as unlikely as a piece of copper or steel. I went down a rabbit hole and never came out!
So many classic cars in Tucson, possibly because low desert humidity minimizes rusting. This is a 1963 Mercury Monterey, stashed away in a small rear yard...