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Crystals and Electricity
Details
Walter Tandy Murch (1907-1967)
Crystals and Electricity
signed 'Walter Murch' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid down on board
18½ x 18½ in. (47 x 47 cm.)
Crystals and Electricity
signed 'Walter Murch' (lower left)
oil on canvas laid down on board
18½ x 18½ in. (47 x 47 cm.)
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.
Private collection.
Christie's, New York, 3 December 1993, lot 15.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
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.
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.
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.
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.