Exhibit celebrates abstract expressionist Burkhardt's art Jul 29, 2008
Artists included Paul Cadmus, John Chamberlain, Christo, Chuck Close, Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Graves, Roy Lichtenstein, Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear and George Rickey. The citation, penned by painter Wayne Thiebaud, said Burkhardt's "works continue to urge us to reflect upon our deepest human concerns about ourselves and the world.". (Los Angeles Daily News)
FAA Announces New Measures to Improve Air Travel Experience May 2, 2008
The show will feature approximately 80 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by prominent American artists including Milton Avery, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Ellsworth Kelly, John Marin, Elizabeth Murray, Ed Paschke, Faith Ringgold, Edward Ruscha and Frank Stella. Reverberations, curated by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy (128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia), opens on June 28 and will continue through September 21. (Saint Louis Front Page)
Psychiatrist opens Hale antique shop Oct 22, 2007
Miller has paintings and prints that range from fine art - an Elizabeth Murray limited edition, for instance, to flea market art. She has fine pottery that sells in the hundreds and even thousands of dollars. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Latin American masters of soulful straight lines Sep 15, 2007
In this flamboyant little work geometry turns blunt, in advance of Minimalism, and cartoonishly savvy, in advance (and somewhat contradictorily) of the abstract painter Elizabeth Murray. And, incidentally, Murray's penchant for eggplant purples, reds and blacks is presaged in a spare tightrope of a composition, "Development of a Theme," painted in 1952 by another of the show's discoveries, Alfredo Hlito, of Buenos Aires. (International Herald Tribune)
Elizabeth Murray, 66; abstract painter used vivid colors Aug 16, 2007
By Mary Rourke August 16, 2007 Elizabeth Murray, an artist who painted richly colored, evocative, abstract works after the Minimalist art movement had reduced the art form to a fleet of monochrome canvases, has died. She was 66. (Los Angeles Times)
Elizabeth Murray, 1940-2007 Aug 15, 2007
Elizabeth Murray's Yikes was painted in 1982. (c) 2007 Elizabeth Murray Article Tools ... With the death of Elizabeth Murray at age 66 on Sunday, America lost one of its smartest, slyest, most exuberant painters. (Time.com)
Pax Americana in the Serene Republic Jun 11, 2007
There are rooms devoted to Biennale familiars Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Jenny Holzer, Louise Bourgeois, and Sol LeWitt, as well as newer introductions for an international audience such as Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Raymond Pettibon. Mr. Nozkowski's thoughtful, quirkily compact little abstractions loosely intimating specific sources and improvising playfully upon art historical precedents epitomize Mr. Storr's thesis of art at the nexus of the sensual and the cerebral. (New York Sun)
Admiring art while waiting for the next train Jan 25, 2007
Today she promotes the transit system as a public art institution in its own right, with a roster that includes Vito Acconci, Romare Bearden, Eric Fischl, Robert Kushner, Jacob Lawrence, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar and Robert Wilson. "I now feel this is worthy of being the destination," Bloodworth said one morning in December. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The Art of Buying Art Apr 29, 2006
She suggests focusing instead on works that are part of a smaller edition, like Gemini's Elizabeth Murray lithograph, one of 45. Not only does the scarcity create value, but the quality of each print is likely to be higher since the plate that creates the image can wear down with use. (SmartMoney)
Edward R. Broida, 72; L.A. Real Estate Mogul Collected Contemporary Art Apr 20, 2006
Broida's fascination with Guston continued over the next three decades as he acquired about 700 works by an unpredictably varied group of artists, including painters Elizabeth Murray and Susan Rothenberg and sculptors Martin Puryear and Christopher Wilmarth. In 1982 Broida announced a plan to establish a museum devoted to his collection in New York's SoHo gallery district, but he abandoned the project in 1986 because of zoning and construction problems. (Los Angeles Times)
