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Elizabeth Murray
A Life Painted in Form and Feeling Elizabeth Murray, born in Chicago in 1940 to Irish-Catholic parents, emerged as a pivotal figure in American art, reshaping modernist abstraction into a vibrant language of form brimming with personality. Her father, a lawyer, provided stability while her mother, harboring ambitions as a commercial artist, nurtured Elizabeth’s early artistic inclinations – a crucial foundation for the unique path she
would forge. Murray's formal training began at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1958, guided by a high school teacher who recognized her potential. This was followed by studies at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she earned her MFA in 1964. These formative years exposed her to a diverse range of influences – from the structural rigor of Cézanne and the innovative spirit of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns –…