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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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.&... Read full biography
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About Elizabeth Murray: Books
Books & Publications (67)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Letters to a Young Artist
2006
Amenoff, Gregory, et all
96 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection
2002
Beebe, Mary; Robert Storr
264 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
1996
Wood, James N/T Edelstein
160 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day
1995
Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson
960 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Drawing Redux
1992
Tuchman, Phyllis (curator)
32 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Large Scale Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1991
John Berggruen Gallery
47 pages (color)
Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum
96 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den achtziger Jahren (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Smith, Roberta
190 pages
High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik
460 pages (color)
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Contemporary Women Artists
1988
Beckett, Wendy
128 pages (color)
John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Berggruen, John
97 pages (color)
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream
1988
Rosen, Randy, et al
300 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987
Cummings, Paul
176 pages (color)
A Graphic Muse Prints by Contemporary Women
1987
Field, Richard S/Ruth E Fine
163 pages (color)
Elizabeth Murray Paintings and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Graze, Sue/Dallas Mus ofArt
142 pages (color)
40th Biennial Exhibition Contemporary American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Rifkin, Ned (organizer)
78 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
50 New York Artists
1986
Marshall, Richard
118 pages (color)
American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition)
1986
Rose, Barbara
170 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Five Painters in New York (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Armstrong, Richard
110 pages (color)
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
New Art
1984
Freeman, Phyllis
207 pages (color)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
Art of Our Time The Saatchi Collection (4 Vols)
1984
Lund Humphries
700 pages (color)
American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marshall, Richard
124 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Faison, S Lane
1,983 pages (color)
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)