Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton lives and works in New York. Her work first attracted public attention in 1993 when an exhibition of her historical portraits was shown in Room 828 at the Chelsea Hotel. Subsequently, Peyton's work was notably featured in Projects 60: John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans at MoMA in 1997, and in 2004, a number of portraits were selected for the Whitney Biennial.

Elizabeth Peyton
Frederick Douglass, 1850, 2023
29 layer silkscreen print on 410gsm Somerset tub sized radiant white paper
18 1/2 × 14 3/5 in | 47 × 37.1 cm
Edition of 40

Survey

  • Kurt Cobain, 1995

    acrylic on canvas
    16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm.)

  • Felix Starlight, 2020

    oil on linen
    14 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches (35.9 x 28.3 cm)

  • Frederick Douglass, 1863, 2021

    oil on board17 x 14 inches (43.2 x 35.6 cm)

  • Mai (Afterlife) after Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mai (Omai), 1776, 2023

    Colored pencil and pastel on paper
    12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)

Biography

Photo by Slava Mogutin

Elizabeth Peyton's works have been collected by leading public institutions and collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Cranford Collection, Guernsey, UK; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Rubell Museum, Miami; Saint Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Boros Collection, Berlin; and The Museum of Modern Art in New York which has acquired more than 30 Peyton drawings and paintings in the past 25 years.

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