Two Seated Baby Girls (recto), a Still Life, and Two Animals (verso)
Elizabeth Murray
1840
Medium
Graphite on folded cream wove paper
Dimensions
26.8 × 36.6 cm (10 9/16 × 14 7/16 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115160
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...