Car Heater

Artist Walter Tandy Murch American, born Canada, 1907–1967

Date1957

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions21 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (54.6 x 41.9 cm)
Frame: 31 1/8 x 26 1/8 x 2 in. (79.1 x 66.4 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number73.1.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated New York, 1957; collection of the artist [Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York], sold to NCMA, 1957.
Published ReferencesImportant American Art, 1903-1972 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1972), cat. no. 32.

The Alchemy of Walter Murch (exhibition catalogue) (Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum, 1978), cat. no. 22.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), mentioned 17, listed 45.

American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue) (Asheville: Asheville Art Museum, 1976), listed and illus. (b-w) 24.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 277.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 273.

David Simonton, "As I See It," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (Jan/Feb 2001), 29, illus. (b-w).

Gillian Pederson-Krag, Paintings and Etchings 1970–2011 (Burdett, NY: Larson Publications, 2012), 23–24, illus. (color) 23, fig. 29, listed 164.

Walter Tandy Murch: Paintings and Drawings, 1925–1967 (New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2021), mentioned 70, illus. (color) 169, pl. 33.
Exhibition HistoryProvidence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, "Walter Murch, A Retrospective Exhibition," November 1966; Boston, MA, Boston University Art Gallery; Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; Louisville, KY, The J.B. Speed Art Museum; Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Ontario, Canada, The Art Gallery of Hamilton; New York, NY, The Brooklyn Museum, cat. no. 35.

New York, NY, Kennedy Galleries, "Important American Art, 1903-1972," November 15-25, 1972, cat. no. 32.

Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, "American Paintings from the Permanent Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 16-June 27, 1976, listed and illus. (b-w) 24.

Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, "The Alchemy of Walter Murch," March 26-May 14, 1978, cat. no. 22.

Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House, "Twentieth Century American Art," December 6, 1979-January 31, 1980.
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