This is a superb original signed limited edition color
etching by internationally acclaimed artist
ELIZABETH MURRAY (American, 1940-2007), dated 1988-90.
Elizabeth Murray was born in Chicago
in 1940 and grew up in small towns in Michigan
and Illinois, settling in Bloomington,
Illinois. Going to school was very
difficult for her, particularly high school; her high-school art teacher became
involved in her work and created a scholarship for her at the Art Institute of
Chicago. She had intended to go into commercial art, but as she walked
through the museum every day on her way to classes, she became more aware of
the possibilities for her in painting. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree in 1962, and went to graduate school at Mills
College, getting her Master of Fine
Arts degree in 1964. While she was at Mills she became close friends with
Jennifer Bartlett. She married a sculptor, and they moved to Buffalo,
New York where they lived for two years;
she taught at a Catholic women's college. In 1967 they moved to New
York City, and she gave birth to a son. Murray
paid her dues through some very lean years without ever giving up. She
worked in bookstores and waited on tables. She taught in such schools as Yale, Princeton
and Bard, and gave painting criticism to graduate students at the School
of Visual Arts in New
York, as well as several other schools. Murray and
her husband broke up, and she moved for a time to California
where she taught at the California Institute of the Arts. It was there
that she began painting her "shattered" paintings. She has
created some of the most imaginative conglomerate canvases of the 20th
century.
This
rare original color etching is from "Her
Story" (K. 23),
1988-90, and is signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower right
"Elizabeth Murray" and dated "1988-90". It is also signed in pencil by the
author Anne Waldman (American, born 1945) on the lower left. It is printed on a
folded sheet of handmade wove paper with a poem opposite, with the blindstamp
of the publisher, ULAE, New York,
to the right of the center fold. It was published in an edition of 74 (there
were also 13 artist's proofs). It measures 11 ¼" x 17 ½" (sheet) and is framed
for a total size of 14 ¼" x 20 ¾" (there is normal wear to the original frame). It is in very good condition aside from
slight natural buckling. PROVENANCE:
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