Walter Tandy Murch: Paintings and Drawings, 19251967

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The first complete monograph of artist Walter Tandy Murch explores the life of an unsung yet remarkable artist whose paintings and illustrations of everyday objects and mechanical devices are familiar yet mysterious, or asGeorge Lucas puts it, in a magical middle.


Walter Tandy Murch (19071967) is best known for his enigmatic, dreamlike still life paintings of everyday objects and mechanical devices in a style that falls between Magic Realist, Surrealist, and Realist. This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of his work, including his striking commercial work for magazines and his paintings from the extensive collection of George Lucas.

Lucas calls himself a fanboy of Murchs artpaintings and drawings he describes as simultaneously functional and dreamy, simple and complicated; they are quiet yet grab your attention. The tension of these opposing reactions draws viewers into Murchs still lifes, which caught the attention of famed art dealer Betty Parsons, who also represented artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, and Agnes Martin. Murch showed his work at Parsonss gallery for nearly thirty years.

With illuminating essays and extensive plates sections displaying Murchs works, this celebration of an exceptionally talented and visionary artist is long overdue.

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George Lucasis a film director, producer, screenwriter, and art collector.Walter Scott Murchis a writer and an Oscar-winning film editor and sound engineer.Robert Storris a curator, critic, author, professor, and dean of the School of Art at Yale.Winslow Myershas taught art and art history for forty years, chairing the art department at the Bancroft School in Massachusetts.Judy Collischanis a curator, lecturer, writer, and professor of contemporary art.