Deep Bite
started 1994, published 1995
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View on museum website →Medium
color etching and aquatint on Rives BFK wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 8.73 × 9.53 cm (3 7/16 × 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 32.39 × 26.67 cm (12 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
2017.54.73
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...