Young Girl Pouring Tea and Profile Sketch (recto), and Sketch of Italian City Street (verso)
Elizabeth Murray
n.d.
Medium
Graphite and red chalk with traces of white chalk (recto), and graphite (verso), on gray wove paper
Dimensions
17.5 × 26 cm (6 15/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115167
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...