
Elizabeth Murray
ELIZABETH MURRAY "WE MEET AGAIN" LITHOGRAPH, 2004
Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) transformed the language of abstraction through color, wit, and an irrepressible sense of movement. Rejecting the conventions of a rectangular canvas, she created exuberant compositions that dissolved the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and drawing.
Murray belongs to a generation of artists from the 1970s whose exposure to Cubist-derived Minimalism and surrealist-influenced pop-inspired experimentation with new modes of expression. She continuously challenged the conventions of painting by twisting, warping, and knotting her forms, extending imagery into shaped canvases.
Her contoured (literally) compositions often merged abstraction with familiar domestic images, balanced humor with formal intention. Though her work was serious in its commitment to pushing the boundaries of painting, it is united by an overarching sense of joy and playfulness and her intentional use of bright, sometimes garish, colors.
The final decade of Murray's career saw an increasingly ambitious body of multi-panel paintings that revisited recurring motifs—including interiors, tables, coffee cups, and shoes—with renewed energy and complexity. In 2005, the Museum of Modern Art presented a major career retrospective spanning more than seventy-five paintings and works on paper, affirming Murray's place among the most influential American painters of her generation.
"We Meet Again" exemplifies Murray's mature printmaking output. The forms echo the dynamic energy of her shaped canvases, with bold saturated forms intertwining. The work was published by the esteemed Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York. Alongside her drawings, Murray's prints allow insight into her drive to blur traditional distinctions between abstraction and figuration, unencumbered by the demands of large-scale intensive paintings.
Murray's works are held in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the MoMA, the Whitney, the Art Institute of Chicago, the SFMoMA, the Carnegie, and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
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"We Meet Again"
USA, 2004
Lithograph on paper
Signed and dated, lower right
Numbered "26/108", lower left
Published by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York
31"H 46"W (work)
48"H 52.75"W (framed)
Very good condition
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