Ellen Murray

Ellen Murray (born 1947) is an American watercolorist. Her make known is sometimes perfect as Ellen Murray Meissinger.

Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Murray studied at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, receiving her bachelor of Good arts in 1969 and a Masters of Fine Arts in 1971. Peter Agostini was accompanied by her instructors. She began exhibiting her produce an effect in her house state though in graduate school, and has back shown pieces a propos the United States. She has normal numerous awards, and is a believer of the National Watercolor Society and the Watercolor USA Honor Society. She taught at Oklahoma State University introduction in 1971; in 1986 she took a direction at Arizona State University, where she oversees one of the largest programs in the country dedicated to watercolor and other water-based media. She has collaborated when the ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub to abet the student exhibition series, Creative Cartography. Murray married Lonnie Dean Meissinger in 1975, and the couple's son, Logan Don, was born in 1979; his toys have often served as subjects for his mother's work. She has in addition to created larger-scale installation pieces, such as Deluge, memorializing the 1966 flood of the Arno.