Elizabeth Murray (artist)
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Elizabeth Murray (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[1], the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[2], and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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[edit] Life and work
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.[3] As a student, she was influenced by painters ranging from Cezanne to Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.[4]
In 1967, Murray moved to New York 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, New York), an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics, personalities, or pure feeling through an interaction of non-figurative shapes, colour and lines.[5]
In 1999 Murray was awarded a MacArthur Foundation award (also known as the "genius grant"). [6] She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings. [7]
She died, aged 66, from lung cancer in 2007.[8] The year before her death, her 40 year career was honored at the MoMA. She was one of the few female artists to be honored by the museum.[8]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ moma.org
- ^ artcyclopedia.com
- ^ mills.edu
- ^ Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers, 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0
- ^ Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers, 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0
- ^ infoplease.com
- ^ New York Times, May 8, 1981
- ^ a b Smith, Roberta. "Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies", The New York Times, 13 August 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2008.
[edit] Bibliography
- Elizabeth Murray; Francine Prose; PaceWildenstein (Firm) Elizabeth Murray: paintings 1999-2003: March 7-April 19, 2003 (New York, N.Y.: PaceWildenstein, 2003) ISBN 1930743246
- Robert Storr; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Elizabeth Murray (New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2005) ISBN 0870704931
- Elizabeth Murray: Drawings, 1980-1986 (exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie-Mellon U.A.G. 1986)
- Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings (exhibition catalogue, Dallas, TX, Museum A, and elsewhere, 1987)
[edit] External links
- Elizabeth Murray on ARTINFO
- Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 2 (2003).
- Askart.com page on Elizabeth Murray, with COLOR IMAGES
- MTA Arts for Transit page on Elizabeth Murray's large-scale glass mosaic mural, Blooming, 1996
- MTA Arts for Transit page on Elizabeth Murray's large-scale glass mosaic mural, Stream, 2001
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