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Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton (Born 1965) is active/lives in New York, Connecticut.  Elizabeth Peyton is known for Pop art and and romantic portrait painting.

"Angela Merkel’s Humanity, Captured in an Elizabeth Peyton Oil" by Melissa Eddy, July 23, 2017, Art & Design section, The New York Times.

“Her face is so determined and tender,” the artist Elizabeth Peyton said of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor."

BERLIN — The last time Vogue profiled a prominent European female leader, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, she agreed to be captured by Annie Leibovitz in a rainbow array of coats and her trademark leopard-print kitten heels.

But for the August 2017 issue, featuring another — perhaps the most — powerful woman in Europe, the likeness of Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was rendered not in a glossy shoot by Ms. Leibovitz, the star photographer, but in an oil painting in muted primary hues by the American artist Elizabeth Peyton.

As Kati Marton lays out in her profile of the 63-year-old German chancellor — made available to the author for a single question — Ms. Merkel is patently unint   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3827 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Elizabeth Peyton available:    Dan Colen,  John Currin,  Leon Kossoff,  Jack Pierson,  Robert Gober,  Marlene Dumas,  Martin Kippenberger,  Dana Schutz,  Christopher Wool,  Albert Oehlen,  Tauba Auerbach,  Matthew Barney,  Peter Doig,  Cady Noland,  Raymond (St Pettibone) Pettibon,  Sterling Ruby,  Mike Kelley,  Cecily Brown,  Richard Phillips,  Fang Lijun,  Weiwei Ai,  Alberto Burri,  Glenn Ligon,  Chris Burden



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Elizabeth Peyton


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Portraits, Portraiture
Art School
  • School of Visual Arts, New York, Student
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Figure Specialty
  • Portrait Specialty

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