Walter Tandy Murch

Lot 165: Walter Tandy Murch (1907-1967)

Name: Walter Tandy Murch (1907-1967)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 38c1ec27d8

Est: $8,000 USD - $12,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 22, 2014

Item Overview

Description

Walter Tandy Murch (1907-1967) >Crystals and Electricity <br>signed 'Walter Murch' (lower left) >oil on canvas laid down on board <br>18Â½ x 18Â½ in. (47 x 47 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Walter Tandy Murch

Exhibited

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Walter Murch, January 3-22, 1949, no. 18. >New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, December 16, 1949-February 5, 1950, no. 96 (as The Quartz). >New York, American Federation for the Arts, and elsewhere, Art in Science: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints from the Pages of Scientific American, 1956, no. 13. >Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design, and elsewhere, Walter Murch: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 9-December 4, 1966, no. 23.

Literature

Scientific American, December 1949, cover illustration. >Whitney Museum of American Art, 1949 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, exhibition checklist, New York, 1949, no. 96 (as The Quartz). >R.M. Coates, "The Art Galleries; Paul Klee, the Whitney Annual, and John Marin," The New Yorker, December 31, 1949, p. 43 (as The Quartz). >Rhode Island School of Design, Walter Murch: A Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island, 1966, pp. 20-21, 73, no. 23, illustrated.

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. >Private collection.
Christie's, New York, 3 December 1993, lot 15. >Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Auction Details

American Art

Christie's

May 22, 2014, 12:00 AM EST

219 East 67th Street, New York, NY, 10021, US

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