{"data":{"id":"2896","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":2896,"topgoose_id":9494,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":2896,"title":"Children Meeting","display_artist_text":"Elizabeth Murray","display_date":"1978","accession_number":"78.34","dimensions":"Overall: 101 3/16 × 127 in. (257 × 322.6 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Murray, \u003cem\u003eChildren Meeting\u003c/em\u003e, 1978. Oil on canvas, overall: 101 3/16 × 127 in. (257 × 322.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Louis and Bessie Adler Foundation, Inc., Seymour M. Klein, President 78.34. © Estate of Elizabeth Murray / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Murray forged a distinctively exuberant vocabulary using lines, shapes, and colors associated with comic strips as well as a simplicity of form derived from reductive abstraction. \u003ci\u003eChildren Meeting\u003c/i\u003e was made at a time when Murray was consolidating her visual language. As she recalled, the painting “grew out of a confidence about being able to lay down the colors and put in the goofy shapes that were beginning to emerge. . .I’d never allowed myself to use that zany purple; it’s a very hard color because it doesn’t have a clear emotion for me.” Murray’s comment implies the importance of psychological associations in her work; equally significant is the implicit presence of the figure, even in paintings that seem resolutely non-representational. Small children engaged in joyous, boisterous play can be discerned in the jostling green and pink forms of \u003ci\u003eChildren Meeting, \u003c/i\u003ewhich Murray produced when she was a young mother, witnessing such play every day.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Large purple organic shape overlaps a green leaf-like form with zigzag pink line across bright background.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:27:17.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:23.323-05:00","images":[{"id":94730,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/2896/78_34_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"930","type":"artist"}]}}}}