Poe
1994
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View on museum website →Medium
hand-colored etching and screenprint on Lanaquarelle Watercolor wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.27 × 18.73 cm (8 3/8 × 7 3/8 in.) image (irregular): 23.81 × 22.54 cm (9 3/8 × 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 45.4 × 41.59 cm (17 7/8 × 16 3/8 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
2017.54.72
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...