Tybid
Elizabeth Murray
2004
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in red and black on Rives BFK wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 40.6 x 32.7 cm (16 x 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Joan and David Maxwell
Accession Number
2005.97.6
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...