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Artist
Walter Tandy Murch
(American, b. Canada, 1907 - 1967)
Date1948
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 25 x 16 5/8 in. (63.5 x 42.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number79.137
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ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedtop right: Walter Murch
Inscribedverso bottom left: 32061; verso top tacking edge: 17
ProvenanceEstate of the artist.
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, unknown date of acquisition.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, unknown date of acquisition.
Palmer Museum of Art, purchased from Kraushaar Galleries, December 1979.Published ReferencesWalter Tandy Murch: Paintings and Drawings, 1925–1967 (New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021), 155 (pl. 16).
Judy Kay Collischan Van Wagner, Walter Murch (PhD diss., University of Iowa, 1972), 401 (no. 74), 564 (ill.).