Rustic Street Scene
Elizabeth Murray
1831
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of graphite on brown wove paper
Dimensions
27.4 × 18.8 cm (10 13/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115174
About the Artist
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) was a pioneering American painter whose exuberant, sculptural canvases redefined the boundaries of abstraction in the late 20th century. Born on September 6, 1940, in Chicago to Irish-Catholic parents—a lawyer father and a mother who aspired to commercial art—she showed an early passion for drawing cartoons, nurtured by her mother's encouragement and high school art te...