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Elizabeth Murray

Spill One, 1981

Description

Maker

  • Elizabeth Murray, 1940-2007, American

Title

Spill One

Year

1981

Medium

Charcoal and oil pastel on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • charcoal

Supports

  • Heavy textured rag paper

Dimensions

135.9 x 139.1 cm (53 1/2 x 54 3/4 inches) (trapezoid)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Pearl and Ernest Nathan Purchase Fund

Object Number

82.024

Projects & Publications

Publications

What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present

September 19, 2014 - January 4, 2015

Elizabeth Murray (American, 1940–2007) made exuberant paintings that exploded the rectangle, so that the form of her work was busted wide open by its content. Taking inspiration from everyday objects such as a coffee mug or a shoe, her abstracted cartoon idioms, developed in the 1970s and 1980s, provide an extroverted counterpoint to the interiority of the Hairy Who. A classmate of Hairy Who artist Gladys Nilsson at the School of the Art Institute, Murray left Chicago for California and then New York in the mid-1960s. In New York, she restlessly explored the intersection between representation and abstraction. There she first made work that implied a narrative, then stripped it away to abstraction, and finally found a middle ground between the two.

Webs, Loops, and Skeins in Modern and Contemporary Art

February 24 - April 23, 2006

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