Thursday, March 17, 2011

Elizabeth Murray

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 Cezanne to Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.



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.[4] She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings.[5] (wikipedia)




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