Bedtime
1996
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View on museum website →Medium
mezzotint over color monotype on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 49.21 × 49.53 cm (19 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.) sheet: 73.18 × 67.47 cm (28 13/16 × 26 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Universal Limited Art Editions, in Honor of Tatyana Grosman)
Accession Number
2015.19.3065
About the Artist
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) was a pioneering American painter whose exuberant, sculptural canvases redefined the boundaries of abstraction in the late 20th century. Born on September 6, 1940, in Chicago to Irish-Catholic parents—a lawyer father and a mother who aspired to commercial art—she showed an early passion for drawing cartoons, nurtured by her mother's encouragement and high school art te...