Elizabeth Murray (artist)
| Elizabeth Murray | |
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Wiggle Manhattan, lithograph, 1992, Museum of Modern Art
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| Born |
September 6, 1940 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | August 12, 2007 (aged 66) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Mills College |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking |
| Notable work | Do the Dance, Children Meeting, Painters' Progress, Careless Love, Blooming |
| Awards | MacArthur Foundation Grant, Larry Aldrich Prize |
Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) 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 Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Elizabeth Murray was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Murray graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958-1962. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College in 1964. As a student, she was influenced by painters ranging from Cézanne to Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.
In 1967, Murray moved to New York City, and first exhibited in 1971 in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition. One of her first mature works included "Children Meeting," 1978 (now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum), an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics, personalities, or pure feeling through an interaction of non-figurative shapes, colour and lines. She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings.
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