Series 23: Whazzat #5

1996
(American, 1940–2007)
Overall: 69.2 x 51.4 cm (27 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
© The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Gemini 35.19.5
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location: not on view

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Elizabeth Murray is known especially for painting on unusually shaped canvases.

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Alongside her career as a painter, Elizabeth Murray has been making prints since 1979. These gestural works feature a dynamic, hectic jumble of forms. This work belongs to Whazzat, a series of unique pastels drawn over lithographs created while Murray was visiting the Los Angeles-based printshop Gemini G.E.L. Figures and objects intertwine playfully, shifting between abstraction and representation. Here, Murray collaged 23 separate components and drew additions with colorful pastel.
Series 23: Whazzat #5

Series 23: Whazzat #5

1996

Elizabeth Murray

(American, 1940–2007)
American, 20th century

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