On the Rhine (recto), and Mother and Child (verso)
Elizabeth Murray
1841
Medium
Brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite (recto), and graphite (verso), on blue wove paper
Dimensions
10.7 × 15.6 cm (4 1/4 × 6 3/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115226
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...