1987.33
Kick
Artist
Elizabeth Murray
(Chicago, Illinois, 1940 - 8/12/2007, Washington County, New York)
Title
Kick
Creation Date
1985
Century
20th century
Dimensions
44 7/8 in. x 29 3/4 in. (113.98 cm x 75.57 cm)
Object Type
drawing
Creation Place
North America, United States
Medium and Support
charcoal and white chalk on white wove paper mounted on matboard
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, George Otis Hamlin Fund
Copyright
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Accession Number
1987.33
Compelled to draw since her early childhood in Chicago, Elizabeth Murray experimented with drawing mediums on paper as a creative endeavor clearly distinct from her painting practice. She valued the open-ended process of drawing and freely revealed its traces to the viewer, as she described to curator Clifford S. Ackley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1987: “When I am beginning a big drawing, I’ll put the sheets of paper up on the wall in big chunks and use a ruler to tear them. . . . Lots of times when I’m shifting them, I’ll get new ideas and I’ll tear a little off here and there. . . . The energy that goes into a drawing feels much more pointed [than in a painting] because I’m able to hold the charcoal in my hand and get so close to the paper. . . . It feels like I can think faster and focus more easily with drawings.”
Object Description
drawing of a dark, curvilinear abstraction
