Freddy Seymour, Kilkenny
Elizabeth Murray
1843
Medium
Graphite on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
27.7 × 19 cm (10 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115151
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Elizabeth Murray · 1830–1900
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...