Portrait of a Man
Elizabeth Murray
1846
Medium
Graphite with colored pencil and traces of white gouache on brown wove paper
Dimensions
38.3 × 28.1 cm (15 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
Classification
colored pencil
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115145
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...