Snow Storm, Scarbro'
Elizabeth Murray
November 29, 1846
Medium
Brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on gray wove paper
Dimensions
12 × 14.7 cm (4 3/4 × 5 13/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
115169
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...