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Elizabeth Peyton
PainterKnown for:
intimate portraiture of cultural figures; the hotel room exhibitions
Education:
School of Visual Arts, New York (BFA, 1987)
Elizabeth Peyton began showing small paintings and drawings of friends and cultural figures - rock musicians, royalty, film actors - in a New York hotel room in 1993, in an exhibition that attracted immediate attention for its intimacy and formal refinement. Her delicate, warm-toned paintings draw on nineteenth-century portrait miniature and Japanese woodblock prints as much as on contemporary image culture. She is among the most commercially successful painters of her generation.
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Paints with pure, unmixed colors in thin glazes on heavily gessoed masonite panels sanded smooth like glass; never uses black paint
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Oil paint — pigment suspended in a drying oil, typically linseed — has been the dominant painting medium since the fifteenth century. It dries slowly, allowing extended blending, and produces a rich, luminous surface. Available from dozens of manufacturers at student through professional grades.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
