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Elizabeth Murray was an American abstract painter best known for her large-scale, shaped canvas works and cartoonish drawing style. View Elizabeth Murray’s 570 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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- Up Dog 1987
Elizabeth Murray (American, 1940–2007) Title: Up Dog, 1987...
- The Clock
Created as an original screenprint in 1993, Murray’s, The...
- Untitled 1995
Elizabeth Murray (American, 1940–2007) Title: Untitled, 1995...
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Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman.
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Elizabeth Murray's paintings are fun, cartoonish, and also deadly serious in their commitment to the medium and its boundless possibilities. Murray is famous for expanding painting's dimensions by working across multiple canvasses, and fragmenting the picture plane by breaking up not only the image, but the painted object itself. Murray's work play...
'Pastiche' is a term used to refer to a celebratory imitation of an artwork or style. Parody is a similar term, but means an imitation produced to mock. Murray's paintings often both pastiche and p...Unlike many of her cotemporaries, Elizabeth Murray was determined not only to paint (after one of painting's many purported deaths), but to make funpaintings. Influenced by cartoons, Murray's work...Childhood
Elizabeth Murray was born in 1940 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Bloomington, Illinois. Her parents were Irish immigrants and her mother took care of the family, while her father worked as a lawyer. Despite her father's job and a few good early years, the family often struggled financially and experienced some bouts of brief homelessness. Murray admired her mother's artistic abilities; particularly her painted miniatures, but saw her as "a typical woman of the thirties. She didn't have t...
Early Training and Work
At the Institute Murray studied lithography and began to familiarize herself with the Institute's holdings. She received a traditional training in painting but what was truly impactful on her was the fact that "to get to the art school in these days, you had to walk through the museum... I gradually began to absorb the art - the masterpieces - around me." She marveled at the Picassos and the Cezannes, and was particularly interested in the work of the Surrealists and Willem de Kooning. When s...
Mature Period
In New York Murray painted bright, abstract works that gradually grew quite large. She visited art shops frequently, deriving inspiration from the variety of paint colors. The art world first took notice of Murray in the Whitney's 1972 painting show. Martha Tucker, then a curator at the Whitney, reviewed Murray's slides that the artist had sent her. Dakota Redwas exhibited, though it did not sell; Murray ended up trading it for dental work later on. Her first major sales came later in that ye...
- American
- September 6, 1940
- Chicago, IL
- August 12, 2007
Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) American painter known for unique shaped paintings. Exhibited at Paula Cooper, Pace. Collected by MoMA, Hirshhorn, MET & others.
Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940, Chicago, IL—d. 2007, Granville, NY) was an artist at the forefront of American painting for five decades and is considered one of the most important postmodern abstract artists of her time.
Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) [1] was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, [2] the Museum of Modern Art, [3] the Whitney ...
12 de ene. de 2018 · An enlarged, black-and-white photograph of painter Elizabeth Murray’s hand ends Pace Gallery’s current exhibition—closing January 13th—which focuses on the late artist’s work from the 1980s. Murray’s dirty, bandaged fingers (thumb hidden, pointer bent) lightly brush a marked canvas.
