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Artist Walter Tandy Murch American, 1907-1967
Dateabout 1952
DimensionsH: 16 1/8 in. (41 cm); W: 16 in. (40.6 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1954.71
Not on View
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  • Paintings
Published Referencesvan Wagner, J., "Walter Murch," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1972, p. 415, fig. 107.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 85, pl. 250.

Collischan, Judy, et al. Walter Murch Paintings and Drawings, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, 1986. p. 77, repr. p. 38

Lucie-Smith, Edward, American Realism, London, 1994, p. 159, fig. 164.

Danese, Andrea, Walter tandy Murch: Paintings and Drawings, 1925-1967, New York, Rizzolo International Publications, Inc., 2021, repr. (col.) fig. 22, p. 107-108.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, 41st Annual, 1954, no. 46.

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Walter Murch: Recent Paintings, 1954, no. 9.

Art Institute of Chicago, 61st American Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1954, no. 107, repr.

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, The World of Realism, 1958, repr.

Des Moines (IA) Art Center, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Current Painting Styles and Their Sources, 1958.

Oxford, Ohio, Miami University, The American Scene in 150 Years of American Art, 1959.

Allentown Art Museum, Four Centuries of Still Life, 1959, no. 71, repr. pl. 79.

Albion (MI) College, The Eye Looks Inward and Outward, 1965 (no cat.).

Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Walter Murch, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1966, no. 29, repr. (cat. by D. Robbins).

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J. 1978.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Greenvale, N. Y., Long Island University, Hillwood Art Gallery, Walter Murch Paintings and Drawings, Sept 12, 1986 - Jan. 30, 1987.

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