Elizabeth Murray Reshaed Modernist Abstraction

Elizabeth Murray was an American painter that reshaped Modernist abstraction. It became high-spirited and cartoon-based. In addition to being a painter, she was a printmaker and a draughtsman. When she was a student, she was influenced by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Her works are in countless major public collections, some of which include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.
Elizabeth Murray was born on September 6th, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. In her early years World War II was occurring. She had an impoverished childhood and was homeless for periods of time. This was partially due to the fact that her father was ill. Her interest in art began after she watched a nursery-school teacher color a piece
She stumbled upon a still life while going to one of her classes and it was then that she realized that she could become a painter if she wanted to try. Murray graduated in 1962 and earned a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts). Afterwards, she got her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Mills College in 1964. It was at Mills College that she met Jennifer Bartlet. Elizabeth Murray married Don Sunseri; he was one of her classmates from the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first child, a boy, was born in 1969. In 1973, Murray and Don Sunseri got divorced. She got married to Bob Holman a few years later and had two daughters in the early 80’s. Murray died on August 12th, 2007 in her home in upstate New York. She was sixty-six years old and had lung cancer. Her death was caused by complications of lung cancer. Murray was survived by her husband, Bob Holman, and her three children.
Murray would use different mediums, depending on the painting she was working on. For example, in her painting Wiggle Manhattan she used lithograph on paper. In 1971, Murray reached a turning point and gave up working in three dimensions. She replaced her acrylic paints with oil paints and moved toward abstract