Portrait of Young Girl with Shoulderless Gown
Elizabeth Murray
n.d.
Medium
Watercolor on graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
24.8 × 16 cm (9 13/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115192
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...