THE PAINTINGS OF GERALD MURPHY
WILLIAM BUBIN
with the collaboration of Carolyn Lanchner
Foreword by Archibald I\iJacLeish
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Paintings, 9 watercolor and drawings, 6 postcardsPhoto enlargements of paintingsDucumentary photographsl-Ia11label
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32 5/8 x 36 1/2"Razor. (1924)Oil on canvasDallas Museum of Fine,Arts,Foundation for the Arts Collection,gift of Gerald Murphy
1963.74 FA
I{atch. (1924-25)Oil on canvasDallas Museum of Fine Arts,Foundation for the Arts Collection,gift of Gerald Murphy
1963.75 FA
78 1/2 x 78 7/8"
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Paintings (continued)
1130.64 Wasp and Pear. (1929)Oil on canvasThe Museum of Modern Art, New York,gift of Archibald MacLeishMathews 2213
36 3/4 x 38 5/8"
Photo Enlargements of Paintings
p-l Engine Room (Turbines). (1922)Oil on canvas(lost)
30 x 40"original, c. 44 x 60"
p-2 BoatdecK. (1923)Oil on canvas(lost)
72 x 53 1/4"original, 18' x 121
P-3 Portrait. (1928)Oil on canvas(lost)
30 x 28"original, c. 32 x 32"
Wall label
Introductory text about paintings(mounted photostat, white letters onblack) 15 1/2 x 19 1/4"
Works Related to Patrick Murphy
74.230 Sara Murphy, American, born 1883Patrick Murphy. (1926)Pencil on paperCollection Mrs. Gerald MurphyKeller 705 Nt:>r £"1-1 NY
8 x 6 1/2"
TR 4164 Fernand L~ger, French, 1881-1955Pa trick Murphy at Saranac. 1935 12 x 18"Colored crayons and pencil on paperCollection Mrs. Gerald Murphy NOT C::i<H wi
74.289 1-6 6 postcardspostcards altered with pen andink and given by L~ger to PatrickMurphy and the other twoMurphy children
Collection Mr. and Mrs. William M.Donne lly /'lOT Eo}' 1-1 '" YNote: all of the above works will
be displayed in one largemultiple-window mat measuring 59 7/8 x 24"
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Works related to the IIWeather Bird"
Fernand Leger5 watercolors from the twenty-fourpage notebook painted in 1934 duringcruise on the schooner "WeatherBird" wi th Gerald Murphy
EL 65.611.15 Untitled. 1934Keller 670
12 3/4 x 9 1/2"
EL 65.611. 18 Untitled. 1934Keller 668
12 3/4 x 9 1/2"
EL 65.611.19 Sara Murphy. 1934Keller 665
12 3/4 x 9 1/2"
EL 65.611.22 Untitled. 1934Keller 662
12 3/4 x 9 1/2"
EL 65.611.10 Untitled. 1934Keller 679
9 1/2 x 12 3/4"
All works, watercolor and pencil.Extended loans from Mrs. GeraldMurphy to The Museum of Modern Art,NewYork
Note: above 5 works mounted in onelarge mat unit measuring 76 3/8 x 24"
Photographic enlargements
P-4 Deck, "Weather B'i rd" 11 x 6 1/4"
P-5 "Weather Bird" 11 x 6 1/4"
P-6 Sara Murphy (on "Weather gLr-d" deck) 9 1/2 x 10"
Within the Quota
P-7 PERFORMANCE,Within the Quota. 1923photographic enlargement (ofthe curtain for the ballet)
74.285 Gerald and Sara MurphyThe Immigrant. Costume designfor the ballet Within the Quota. 1923Watercolor and collage of photo-graphic reproductionsCollection The Dance Museum, StockholmNOT eX",," NY
62 5/8 x 72"(mounted on 1/4"masonite, with III batten:
12 7/8 x 10"
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Within the Quota (continued)
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74.286 America's Sweetheart. Costumedesign for the ballet Within theQuota. 1923.Watercolor and pencil with twopinned swatches of materialCollection The Dance Museum, StockholmN.,-r ~Hj NY
The Cowboy. Costume design for theballet Within the Quota. 1923photograph
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P-9 The Jazz Baby. Costume design forthe ballet Within the Quota. 1923photograph
P-lO The Colored Gentleman. Costumedesign for the ballet Within theQuota. 1923Photograph
P-11 Photograph of two of the performers inWithin the Quota, The Immigrant andThe Jazz Baby
Documentary photographs
P-12 Murphy, after completion of pre-flight training, 1917
P-13 Murphy (en voyou ) ,. Houlgate, Normandy,1922
P-14 Sara and Gerald Murphy with theirchildren, Baath, Honoria, and Patrick.Houlgate, Normandy, 1922
P-15 Sara and Gerald Murphy at a ballgiven by count Etienne de Beaumont,1922 or 1923
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11 1/2 x 9"
6 x 4 3/8"
6 1/8 x 4 5/8"
6 5/8 x 3 1/4"
12 7/8 x 10"
10 x 5 5/8",
12 1/8 x 9 1/8"
6 1/4 x 10"
10 x 6"
Sara Murphy (under umbrella) with picasso,his wife Olga (behind Picasso's hat),and his mother, Sefiora Ruiz, the Countand Countess Etienne de Beaumont, andother friends. Garoupe Beach, Antibes,1923 8 1/2 x 12"
P-17 Sara Murphy and Picasso arm in arm,1923
P-18 Sara Murphy and Gerald on the beach.Cover photo on Living Well is theBest Revenge. 1923
10 x 6 3/4"
10 1/8 x 6 5/8"
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Documentary photographs (continued)
-Archibald and Ada MacLeish, Geraldand Sara Murphy, Vienna, 1923 12 x 7 1/2"
Murphy, Ginny Carpenter, Cole Porter,Sara Murphy, Venice, 1923 7 5{8 x 12"
Murphy and Picas·so, Garoupe Beach,Antibes, 1923 12 X 911
Olga Picasso, Count Etienne de Beaumont,Sara Murphy, Garoupe Beach, Antibes, 1923 10 X 9"
Picasso with his son, Paulo, PatrickBaath, and Honoria Murphy, Garoupe Beach,Antibes, 1923 6 3{4 x 10"
Murphy and Boatdeck. Salon deslnd~pendants, 1924 12 x 9"
Murphy with John Dos Passes. VillaAmerica, Antibes, 1926
Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. Antibes,1926 7 X 1011
Murphy with Monty Woolley. Antibes, 1928 8 x 10"
Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Honoriaand Gerald Murphy, Antibes, 1929 10 x 7"
Baoth, Sara and Gerald Murphy, 1929-1931 10 1{8 x 6"
Murphy and Leger, Bad-Aussee, Austria,1931 9 1{8 x 12"
Sara Murphy, Scottie Fitzgerald, Leger,Patrick Murphy, Bad-Aussee, Austria, 1931 7 3{4 x 10"
Murphy with E1ien and Philip Barry in theirMercedes. Antibe, c. 1932
Murphy with Pauline and Ernest Hemingway.Cooke City, Montana, 1932 12 x 7 1{2"
Murphy. Saranac, New York, 1935 12 1{8 x 9 1{8"
Sara Murphy, L~ger, Ada MacLeish.Hartford, Connecticut, 1936 8 5/8 x 12"
Alexander Woo11cott and Murphy (as Amishelder). Conway, Massachusetts, 1941 10 x 5 3{4"
April 16, 1974
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