Details
Elizabeth Murray (b. 1940)
Leg
signed, titled and dated 'Leg Elizabeth Murray May-June 1984' (on the reverse)
oil on shaped canvas construction
115 x 79 in. (292.1 x 200.7 cm.)
Executed in 1984.
Provenance
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Literature
J. Perrone, "Hugging and Tugging," Arts, February 1985, vol. 59, no. 6, p. 74 (illustrated).
P. Plagens, "Nine Biennial Notes," Art in America, July 1985, vol. 73, no. 7, p. 116 (illustrated).
R. Connor, American Art 85: A View from the Whitney, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1986, (included in video).
A. Applebee and J. Langer, New Literature, Evanston 1986 (illustrated, inside cover).
Exhibited
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Elizabeth Murray, October 1984.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985 Biennial, March-June 1985, p. 81 (illustrated).
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Three Contemporary Painters: Leon Golub, Elizabeth Murray, Donald Sultan, March-May 1987.
Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Making Their Mark: Women Move into the Mainstream 1970-1985, February-December 1989, no. 28, p. 55 (illustrated).
Providence, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Elizabeth Murray: Prints, April-June 1991.

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