Walter Tandy Murch (Aug. 17, 1907 – Dec. 11, 1967) was a painter whose still life paintings of machine parts, brick fragments, clocks, broken dolls, hovering light bulbs and glowing lemons are an unusual combination of realism and abstraction. His style of painting objects as though they are being seen through frosted glass has been compared to 18th century painters such as Chardin, while his oddly marred and pitted surfaces tend to evoke the 20th-century's abstract expressionists. He is the father of sound designer and film editor Walter Scott Murch and Louise Tandy Schablein. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Tandy_Murch] ...Murch's style remains difficult to classify, although he has been variously described as a Magic Realist, Surrealist, Romantic Realist or just plain Realist. For subjects, he favored motors, tools and scientific equipment which would often be incongruously arranged with more traditional still life elements such as fruit, bread and fragments of rock. These mysterious and eccentric juxtapositions seem to imply poetic associations although Murch himself tended to dismiss this sort of interpretation of his work, saying of the objects he chose to paint that they were simply an excuse to paint. This response seems perfectly appropriate because the broken surface of his work gives it a visibility equal to the virtual image (the objects depicted), which themselves are depicted with undistorted clarity and geometric precision. This creates a fascinating ambiguity... [https://www.murchworldwide.com/murch---artists] Murch was an important still life painter who until recently it has been very difficult to find information or see many images of his work online but recently I read a terrific essay on his painting: The Recreated Image, Walter Tandy Murch at Sixty, by Winslow Myers This essay has many quotes from Murch and many fascinating biographical details about Walter Murch’s art and life. [http://paintingperceptions.com/walter-tandy-murch/] undefined

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