Walter Murch
1907–1967

Introduction

Walter Tandy Murch (August 17, 1907 – December 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.

Wikidata identifier

Q7966252

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Introduction

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Country of birth

Canada

Roles

Artist, painter, still life artist

ULAN identifier

500020472

Names

Walter Tandy Murch, Walter Murch

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