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Elizabeth Murray (artist)

March 23, 2023

This article is about the 20th-century American artist. For the 19th-century British watercolourist, see Elizabeth Murray (painter).

Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007)[1] 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 Museum of Modern Art,[2] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[3] the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[4] the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum. Murray was known for her use of shaped canvases.

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

Early life

 
Wiggle Manhattan, lithograph, 1992, Museum of Modern Art

Elizabeth Murray was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States to Irish-Catholic parents. Her father was a lawyer and her mother aspired to be a commercial artist. She encouraged her daughter to paint and with the help of her high school art teacher Murray entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958 and graduated with a BFA in 1962.[5] She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College in 1964.[6] As a student, she was influenced by painters ranging from Cézanne to Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.[7]

Career

She taught art at Daemen College from 1965 to 1967. In 1967, Murray moved to New York City. She first exhibited in 1971 in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition. One of her first mature works included "Children Meeting," 1978 (now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum), an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics, personalities, or pure feeling through an interaction of non-figurative shapes, colour and lines.[7] She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings.[8]

Awards and honors

She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.[9] In 1999, Murray was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.[10] This grant led directly to opening of the Bowery Poetry Club, a Lower East Side performance arts venue run by her husband, Bob Holman.[11]

In 2006, her 40-year career was honored at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).[12] The retrospective was widely praised, with The New York Times noting that by the end of the exhibition, "You're left with the sense of an artist in the flush of her authority and still digging deep."[8] As of 2008, Murray was only one of five female artists to have had a retrospective at the MoMA—the other four are Louise Bourgeois (in 1982), Lee Krasner (in 1984), Helen Frankenthaler (in 1989), and Lee Bontecou (in 2004).[13]

Personal life

Murray married sculptor Don Sunseri in 1963 in San Francisco. Murray and Sunseri had met three years prior at the Art Institute of Chicago. Among the guests at their wedding was Murray's close friend and fellow artist, Jennifer Bartlett. Murray and Sunseri had one son together, Dakota Sunseri, before they eventually divorced. Murray was later married to poet and poetry activist Bob Holman, whom she met in 1980. They had two children, daughters Sophia Murray Holman and Daisy Murray Holman.[1] The couple remained together, splitting time between New York City and their farm in Washington County, New York, until Murray's death.

Death

In 2007, Murray died of lung cancer. In her obituary, The New York Times wrote that Murray "reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based, language of form whose subjects included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself ..."[1] The Bowery Poetry Club held a Praise Day in her honor on August 30, 2007, with artists Brice Marden and Joel Shapiro, writers Jessica Hagedorn and Patricia Spears Jones, and choreographers Elizabeth Streb and Yoshiko Chuma among the attendees; Artforum described the event as "a blend of the poignant and the comic that threatened to bring it closer to a Saturday Night Live skit shredding avant-garde performance practice than an actual art-world remembrance."[14] A second private memorial was held at the Museum of Modern Art later that Fall. Murray was survived by her husband and three children.[1]

Legacy: art and feminism

Murray’s curatorial gesture would seem to have constituted a partial change of heart from her... previously self-contained feminism. It is important, though that her strategy for convincing was exhibiting––bringing images out of the shadows... As with the Abstract Expressionist record, so with MoMA, where far more works by women sit in storage than are on display.

— Robert Storr[15]

After Murray's death, the A. G. Foundation, Columbia University, and the Archives of American Art established the "Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project," to honor her memory. The A. G. Foundation's Agnes Gund said of her,

"It seems so right to honor Elizabeth Murray by archiving the lives, the thoughts, the dreams and goals of other women who—like herself—persisted in the visual arts, extending and enriching the world through their work," said the A. G. Foundation's Agnes Gund.[16]

Film

Everybody Knows...Elizabeth Murray, a film by Kristi Zea, exploring Murray's life and work, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Smith, Roberta. "Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies", The New York Times, 13 August 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2008.
  2. ^ The Collection: Elizabeth Murray (American, 1940–2007), moma.org
  3. ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Elizabeth Murray: Children Meeting". collection.whitney.org. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  4. ^ Elizabeth Murray - American Abstract Painter, 1940-2007, artcyclopedia.com
  5. ^ Heartney, Eleanor; Nochlin, Linda (2013). After the revolution: women who transformed contemporary art. Munich; London; New York: Prestel. ISBN 9783791347554. OCLC 959190766.
  6. ^ mills.edu Notable Graduates, Mills College, Mills.edu
  7. ^ a b Grove Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers, 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0
  8. ^ a b Kimmelman, Michael (October 21, 2005) New York Times "ART REVIEW; Stirring Up a Commotion on Canvas" October 21, 2005
  9. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter M" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
  10. ^ 1999 MacArthur Foundation Awards, infoplease.com
  11. ^ Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam. "CHAPTER 26: What the Heck Is Going On Here; The Bowery Poetry Club Opens (Kinda) for Business." Soft Skull Press. ISBN 1-933368-82-9.
  12. ^ Exhibition: Elizabeth Murray, October 23, 2005–January 6, 2006, MoMA
  13. ^ New York Times "A Visit With the Modern's First Grandmother" By CAROL KINO. Published: October 2, 2005.
  14. ^ Remembering Murray, ARTFORUM, August 30, 2007.
  15. ^ Robert Storr, Elizabeth Murray NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2005 pg 18
  16. ^ "Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  17. ^ "Film Forum · EVERYBODY KNOWS... ELIZABETH MURRAY-with-THE 100 YEARS SHOW". Filmforum.org. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  18. ^ "Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray Premieres at Tribeca: A Talk With Director Kristi Zea". The Huffington Post. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-15.

Bibliography

  • Elizabeth Murray; Francine Prose; PaceWildenstein (Firm) Elizabeth Murray: paintings 1999-2003: March 7-April 19, 2003 (New York, N.Y.: PaceWildenstein, 2003) ISBN 1-930743-24-6
  • Robert Storr; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Elizabeth Murray (New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2005) ISBN 0-87070-493-1
  • Elizabeth Murray: Drawings, 1980-1986 (exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie-Mellon U.A.G. 1986)
  • Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings (exhibition catalogue, Dallas, TX, Museum A, and elsewhere, 1987)
  • Heartney, Eleanor; Posner, Helaine; Princenthal, Nancy; Scott, Sue (2013). After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. Prestel Publishing Ltd. pp. 84–105. ISBN 978-3-7913-4755-4.

External links

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This article is about the 20th century American artist For the 19th century British watercolourist see Elizabeth Murray painter Elizabeth Murray September 6 1940 August 12 2007 1 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 Museum of Modern Art 2 the Whitney Museum of American Art 3 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 4 the Art Institute of Chicago the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Wadsworth Atheneum Murray was known for her use of shaped canvases Elizabeth MurrayBorn 1940 09 06 September 6 1940Chicago IllinoisDiedAugust 12 2007 2007 08 12 aged 66 NationalityAmericanEducationSchool of the Art Institute of ChicagoMills CollegeKnown forPainting printmakingNotable workDo the Dance Children Meeting Painters Progress Careless Love BloomingSpouseDon Sunseri div 1973 Bob Holman 1982 2007 her death Children3AwardsMacArthur Foundation Grant Larry Aldrich Prize Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Awards and honors 4 Personal life 5 Death 6 Legacy art and feminism 7 Film 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 External linksEarly life Edit Wiggle Manhattan lithograph 1992 Museum of Modern Art Elizabeth Murray was born in Chicago Illinois United States to Irish Catholic parents Her father was a lawyer and her mother aspired to be a commercial artist She encouraged her daughter to paint and with the help of her high school art teacher Murray entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958 and graduated with a BFA in 1962 5 She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Mills College in 1964 6 As a student she was influenced by painters ranging from Cezanne to Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns 7 Career EditShe taught art at Daemen College from 1965 to 1967 In 1967 Murray moved to New York City She first exhibited in 1971 in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition One of her first mature works included Children Meeting 1978 now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics personalities or pure feeling through an interaction of non figurative shapes colour and lines 7 She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings 8 Awards and honors EditShe was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 9 In 1999 Murray was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship 10 This grant led directly to opening of the Bowery Poetry Club a Lower East Side performance arts venue run by her husband Bob Holman 11 In 2006 her 40 year career was honored at New York City s Museum of Modern Art MoMA 12 The retrospective was widely praised with The New York Times noting that by the end of the exhibition You re left with the sense of an artist in the flush of her authority and still digging deep 8 As of 2008 update Murray was only one of five female artists to have had a retrospective at the MoMA the other four are Louise Bourgeois in 1982 Lee Krasner in 1984 Helen Frankenthaler in 1989 and Lee Bontecou in 2004 13 Personal life EditMurray married sculptor Don Sunseri in 1963 in San Francisco Murray and Sunseri had met three years prior at the Art Institute of Chicago Among the guests at their wedding was Murray s close friend and fellow artist Jennifer Bartlett Murray and Sunseri had one son together Dakota Sunseri before they eventually divorced Murray was later married to poet and poetry activist Bob Holman whom she met in 1980 They had two children daughters Sophia Murray Holman and Daisy Murray Holman 1 The couple remained together splitting time between New York City and their farm in Washington County New York until Murray s death Death EditIn 2007 Murray died of lung cancer In her obituary The New York Times wrote that Murray reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high spirited cartoon based language of form whose subjects included domestic life relationships and the nature of painting itself 1 The Bowery Poetry Club held a Praise Day in her honor on August 30 2007 with artists Brice Marden and Joel Shapiro writers Jessica Hagedorn and Patricia Spears Jones and choreographers Elizabeth Streb and Yoshiko Chuma among the attendees Artforum described the event as a blend of the poignant and the comic that threatened to bring it closer to a Saturday Night Live skit shredding avant garde performance practice than an actual art world remembrance 14 A second private memorial was held at the Museum of Modern Art later that Fall Murray was survived by her husband and three children 1 Legacy art and feminism EditMurray s curatorial gesture would seem to have constituted a partial change of heart from her previously self contained feminism It is important though that her strategy for convincing was exhibiting bringing images out of the shadows As with the Abstract Expressionist record so with MoMA where far more works by women sit in storage than are on display Robert Storr 15 After Murray s death the A G Foundation Columbia University and the Archives of American Art established the Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project to honor her memory The A G Foundation s Agnes Gund said of her It seems so right to honor Elizabeth Murray by archiving the lives the thoughts the dreams and goals of other women who like herself persisted in the visual arts extending and enriching the world through their work said the A G Foundation s Agnes Gund 16 Film EditEverybody Knows Elizabeth Murray a film by Kristi Zea exploring Murray s life and work premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016 17 18 References Edit a b c d Smith Roberta Elizabeth Murray 66 Artist of Vivid Forms Dies The New York Times 13 August 2007 Retrieved 16 April 2008 The Collection Elizabeth Murray American 1940 2007 moma org Whitney Museum of American Art Elizabeth Murray Children Meeting collection whitney org Retrieved 2016 03 05 Elizabeth Murray American Abstract Painter 1940 2007 artcyclopedia com Heartney Eleanor Nochlin Linda 2013 After the revolution women who transformed contemporary art Munich London New York Prestel ISBN 9783791347554 OCLC 959190766 mills edu Notable Graduates Mills College Mills edu a b Grove Dictionary of Art Macmillan Publishers 1996 ISBN 1 884446 00 0 a b Kimmelman Michael October 21 2005 New York Times ART REVIEW Stirring Up a Commotion on Canvas October 21 2005 Book of Members 1780 2010 Chapter M PDF American Academy of Arts and Sciences Retrieved 10 April 2011 1999 MacArthur Foundation Awards infoplease com Aptowicz Cristin O Keefe 2008 Words in Your Face A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam CHAPTER 26 What the Heck Is Going On Here The Bowery Poetry Club Opens Kinda for Business Soft Skull Press ISBN 1 933368 82 9 Exhibition Elizabeth Murray October 23 2005 January 6 2006 MoMA New York Times A Visit With the Modern s First Grandmother By CAROL KINO Published October 2 2005 Remembering Murray ARTFORUM August 30 2007 Robert Storr Elizabeth Murray NY Museum of Modern Art 2005 pg 18 Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution Retrieved 7 October 2013 Film Forum EVERYBODY KNOWS ELIZABETH MURRAY with THE 100 YEARS SHOW Filmforum org Retrieved 2017 03 14 Everybody Knows Elizabeth Murray Premieres at Tribeca A Talk With Director Kristi Zea The Huffington Post 24 April 2016 Retrieved 2017 03 15 Bibliography EditElizabeth Murray Francine Prose PaceWildenstein Firm Elizabeth Murray paintings 1999 2003 March 7 April 19 2003 New York N Y PaceWildenstein 2003 ISBN 1 930743 24 6 Robert Storr Museum of Modern Art New York N Y Elizabeth Murray New York Museum of Modern Art London Thames amp Hudson distributor 2005 ISBN 0 87070 493 1 Elizabeth Murray Drawings 1980 1986 exhibition catalogue Pittsburgh PA Carnegie Mellon U A G 1986 Elizabeth Murray Paintings and Drawings exhibition catalogue Dallas TX Museum A and elsewhere 1987 Heartney Eleanor Posner Helaine Princenthal Nancy Scott Sue 2013 After the Revolution Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art Prestel Publishing Ltd pp 84 105 ISBN 978 3 7913 4755 4 External links EditThe Estate of Elizabeth Murray Biography interviews essays artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art 21 Art in the Twenty First Century Season 2 2003 Askart com page on Elizabeth Murray with COLOR IMAGES MTA Arts for Transit page on Elizabeth Murray s large scale glass mosaic mural Blooming 1996 MTA Arts for Transit page on Elizabeth Murray s large scale glass mosaic mural Stream 2001 Interview with Elizabeth Murray Greg Masters Audio recording of lecture by Elizabeth Murray January 24 1981 from Maryland Institute College of Art s Decker Library Internet Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Elizabeth Murray artist amp oldid 1121038471, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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