"Everything I have done and experienced gets into the work somehow or another—my childhood, my family life, my grad-school days."
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Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray (September 6, 1940 – August 12, 2007) 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 (in Washington D.C.), the Pérez Art Museum Miami, New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the [[w:Wadsworth Atheneum|W
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