Elizabeth Murray (artist)

Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) 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.

This article is about the 20th-century American artist. For the 19th-century British watercolourist, see Elizabeth Murray (painter).
Elizabeth Murray
Born(1940-09-06)September 6, 1940
Chicago, Illinois
DiedAugust 12, 2007(2007-08-12) (aged 66)
NationalityAmerican
EducationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
Mills College
Known forPainting, printmaking
Notable workDo the Dance, Children Meeting, Painters' Progress, Careless Love, Blooming
SpouseDon Sunseri (div 1973) Bob Holman (1982–2007; her death)
Children3
AwardsMacArthur Foundation Grant, Larry Aldrich Prize
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