Cloud 9
Elizabeth Murray
2002
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 236.22 × 213.36 cm (93 × 84 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz
Accession Number
2014.142.3
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...