# Judith Murray artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:38:36.023Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Movements: Abstract art
- Common media: Painting

## About Judith Murray

Judith Murray, born in 1941, is an American abstract painter based in New York City. Her documented career extends back to the 1970s. A distinctive feature of her practice is the disciplined framework she adopted in 1975: paintings developed from red, yellow, black, and white, with colors mixed from that limited foundation. She has also favored a near-square horizontal format marked by a vertical bar along the right edge. Within those recurring boundaries, Murray explores variation in color, gesture, sensation, and the physical character of paint. The edge bar emphasizes that the image is also a constructed object with a defined limit. Collectors may encounter Murray through abstract paintings associated with this continuing investigation rather than through representational subject matter or a conventional named series. Careful identification is important because her name may be shared by other people, and a visual resemblance to her documented framework does not independently establish authorship.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter abstract paintings. Works from Murray's documented post-1975 practice may use colors mixed from red, yellow, black, and white, often within a near-square horizontal format featuring a vertical bar along the right edge. These recurring characteristics help place a work in context but do not, without supporting provenance and examination, authenticate it.

## Market and appraisal context

For appraisal purposes, a work attributed to Judith Murray should first be matched to the correct artist and evaluated against her documented abstract practice. Relevant contextual details include the work's date, medium, dimensions, support, color structure, format, and relationship to the constrained approach she adopted in 1975. Signature, labels, provenance, exhibition history, condition, and a direct physical examination may provide additional evidence, although the collected sources do not document those features for specific works. Comparable auction records are most useful when filtered by work type, size, date, condition, sale date, and venue. This source pack does not include readable major-auction-house catalogue essays or item-level realized prices, so it does not support price predictions or claims about market direction.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63044600
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Murray_(artist)
- Wikipedia: https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_(%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9)
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500329947
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/23714823/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88620569
- Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/gnd/119402904
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000055374916
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/145151557
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/88347