Beggars at a Church Door at Rome, from "Illustrated London News"
Elizabeth Murray|William Luson Thomas
April 9, 1859
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 13/16 × 9 5/16 in. (30 × 23.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Donato Esposito, 2018
Accession Number
2018.614.6
Tags
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About the Artist
Elizabeth Murray|William Luson Thomas
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...