1992
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1992 ink by Elizabeth Murray, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This painting looks like a tall, wobbly building made of thick black lines and blocks. The colors inside the shapes are messy—blues, greens, and yellows—like a city seen through a fog. Red lines and splatters of color shoot out from the sides, almost like energy or smoke. The artist used a printing method where ink is pressed onto stone or metal. That’s why the lines are so sharp and the colors feel slightly blurred. Look up lithography to see how this technique works.
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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