Deep Night
started 1994, published 1995
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View on museum website →Medium
color etching and aquatint on Rives BFK wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 9.53 × 8.89 cm (3 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.) sheet: 32.39 × 26.83 cm (12 3/4 × 10 9/16 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
2017.54.38
Art Historical Context
**Deep Night** by Elizabeth invites viewers into a intimate nocturnal world through this delicate color etching and aquat, started in 1994 and in 1995. just 3¾ × 3½ inches on its plate, the print is housed on a larger 12¾ × 10⁹/₁₆-inch sheet of fine Rives BFK wove paper, a favored choice for its smooth texture and archival quality in printmaking. As part of the National Gallery of Art's—generously gifted by Gemini G.E.L. and the artist—this work exemplifies mid-1990s contemporary print innovation. Etching provides crisp, incised lines, while aquatint adds tonal depth and subtle gradations, al...
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...