Lot 158
  • 158

Walter Murch 1907-1967

bidding is closed

Description

  • Walter Tandy Murch
  • Fragments
  • signed Walter Murch, u.r.
  • oil on canvas mounted on masonite
  • 20 1/4 by 30 1/2 in.
  • (51.4 by 77.5 cm)
  • Painted in 1962.

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Helen Mary Harding, New York, 1962 (acquired from the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1986

Exhibited

Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Sixty-sixth Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, January-February 1963, cat. no 63
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of American Contemporary Paintings, Fall 1966
Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College Art Gallery, Walter Murch, Visiting Artist, 1966

Literature

Betty Parsons Salesbook 1941-1971, New York, p. 203
Cleve Gray, "Walter Murch, Modern Alchemist," Art in America, June 1963, pp. 80-85, illustrated p. 82
The Dartmouth, November 1966, illustrated
Judy Collischan Van Wagner, Walter Murch, Ph.D. Dissertation, Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, 1972, pp. 265, 450, 637, cat. no. 219, illustrated p. 637

Catalogue Note

A copy of an excerpt from Judy Van Wagner's dissertation which discusses this work will accompany the lot.