Untitled

Prints and Drawings

1958/59

Elizabeth Murray
American, 1940-2007

At the time Murray received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962, graduating students were invited to submit a work to the fellowship competition based on a piece in the Art Institute’s collection. A painting by Bernardino Butinone, The Descent from the Cross, inspired her to create this drawing, which references Butinone’s limp, deceased Christ. Murray also made a painting, which recast the scene in a comedic way, but she failed to win the fellowship prize.

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Artist: Elizabeth Murray
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1958
Medium: Graphite with smudging and oil wash on ivory Bristol board
Dimensions: 53.5 × 50.9 cm (21 1/8 × 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Elizabeth Stein
Reference Number: 1999.283

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