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Elizabeth MurrayWW-1958-090669

1958·Graphite with smudging and oil wash on ivory Bristol board·53.5 × 50.9 cm (21 1/8 × 20 1/16 in.)

<p>At the time Murray received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962, graduating students were invited to submit a work to the fellowship competition based on a piece in the Art Institute’s collection. A painting by Bernardino Butinone, <em>The Descent from the Cross</em>, inspired her to create this drawing, which references Butinone’s limp, deceased Christ. Murray also made a painting, which recast the scene in a comedic way, but she failed to win the fellowship prize.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1958
Medium: Graphite with smudging and oil wash on ivory Bristol board
Dimensions: 53.5 × 50.9 cm (21 1/8 × 20 1/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Elizabeth Murray

Artist

Elizabeth Murray

Painting

Elizabeth Murray was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Murray was known for her use of shaped canvases.

Washington County, New York

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