The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Series 23: Whazzat #5
1996
(American, 1940–2007)
Overall: 69.2 x 51.4 cm (27 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
Gift of Donna and James Reid 2017.23
© The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Gemini 35.19.5
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Elizabeth Murray is known especially for painting on unusually shaped canvases.Description
Alongside her career as a painter, Elizabeth Murray has been making prints since 1979. These gestural works feature a dynamic, hectic jumble of forms. This work belongs to Whazzat, a series of unique pastels drawn over lithographs created while Murray was visiting the Los Angeles-based printshop Gemini G.E.L. Figures and objects intertwine playfully, shifting between abstraction and representation. Here, Murray collaged 23 separate components and drew additions with colorful pastel.- Donna and James Reid, Cleveland, OHFebruary 27, 2017The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.23