Trying To
1993
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View on museum website →Medium
pastel over collaged color lithographs and screenprints on Colombe handmade paper, Meirat Velasquez handmade paper, and paperboard
Dimensions
overall (irregular): 76.2 × 58.42 × 6.35 cm (30 × 23 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lee and Ann Fensterstock
Accession Number
2000.177.98
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...