Child Asleep (recto), and Fishermen on Dock (verso)
Elizabeth Murray
1847
Medium
Watercolor over graphite (recto), and graphite (verso), on brown-gray wove paper
Dimensions
25.9 × 17.5 cm (10 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115222
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...