1982
pastel
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1982 pastel by Elizabeth Murray, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting looks like torn-up paper glued together. The shapes are big, squiggly, and mostly red with some dark brown and gray. The edges are jagged, and the colors smudge like they were rubbed hard. The artist used pastels and charcoal, which makes the colors soft but messy. The paper pieces overlap in weird ways, like a puzzle that doesn’t fit right. If you like this style, check out pastel to see how artists use soft, blendable colors.
Elizabeth Murray was an American painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the…
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