Elizabeth Murray
August 12, 2007 8:19 PM Subscribe
Elizabeth Murray, a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based, language of form whose subjects included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself, died yesterday at her home in upstate New York. (Images)
Wow. The images I saw brought tears to my eyes. I don't know why. Absolutley the opposite of what I expected.
Thanks for this.
posted by treepour at 11:02 PM on August 12, 2007
Thanks for this.
posted by treepour at 11:02 PM on August 12, 2007
That's a really nice interview with her. I like the part where she's talking about her high school teacher.
I had a high school teacher in Bloomington who was a very different person for this little town in Illinois. She taught high school art and she was dedicated to art. She was really influential for me because she was so sure that it was an absolutely elevated thing to be an artist. She loved artists; she loved art. She took our class a couple times up to Chicago to the Art Institute, which is the first time I ever saw a Picasso painting. There was a big Picasso show there and that probably would have been 1957, the year that Sputnik went up. And she was just an amazing teacher in her enthusiasm and belief. She was also very tough. She didn't give praise easily and was very demanding. And she got me started on making a notebook, a sketchbook. And that was a huge thing for me. I found myself with a book that I could really draw into and write into. She was single-handedly responsible for getting me a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. She talked this art group into paying my first year's tuition, or else I never would have gotten there. Her name's Elizabeth Stein. She is really a fantastic person and she is still alive. I think she is around ninety-seven years old and lives in Chicago.
posted by jessamyn at 7:36 AM on August 13, 2007
I had a high school teacher in Bloomington who was a very different person for this little town in Illinois. She taught high school art and she was dedicated to art. She was really influential for me because she was so sure that it was an absolutely elevated thing to be an artist. She loved artists; she loved art. She took our class a couple times up to Chicago to the Art Institute, which is the first time I ever saw a Picasso painting. There was a big Picasso show there and that probably would have been 1957, the year that Sputnik went up. And she was just an amazing teacher in her enthusiasm and belief. She was also very tough. She didn't give praise easily and was very demanding. And she got me started on making a notebook, a sketchbook. And that was a huge thing for me. I found myself with a book that I could really draw into and write into. She was single-handedly responsible for getting me a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago. She talked this art group into paying my first year's tuition, or else I never would have gotten there. Her name's Elizabeth Stein. She is really a fantastic person and she is still alive. I think she is around ninety-seven years old and lives in Chicago.
posted by jessamyn at 7:36 AM on August 13, 2007
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posted by mygothlaundry at 7:37 AM on August 13, 2007
posted by mygothlaundry at 7:37 AM on August 13, 2007
Wow. I am so in love with her stuff! Thanks for posting this, I would never have known about her otherwise.
posted by dejah420 at 11:15 AM on August 13, 2007
posted by dejah420 at 11:15 AM on August 13, 2007
I didn't know. The news never tells the important stuff. My favorite artist. I am so so sad.
posted by nax at 8:11 PM on August 13, 2007
posted by nax at 8:11 PM on August 13, 2007
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