GENERAL DESCRIPTION
It was not until 1960 that Murphy's painting was again in the limelight, and it happened in Dallas. Murphy was approached by Douglas MacAgy, Director of the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (DMCA), who was organizing an exhibition of the work of American modernist artists. Entitled American Genius in Review: I, the show not only presented the rediscovery of Gerald Murphy's work but marked the artist's first comprehensive exhibition in America. The exhibition opened in Dallas at the DMCA on 3415 Cedar Springs Road on May 11, 1960, and continued until June 19. This initiated a rich correspondence between Murphy and MacAgy. Murphy was moved that his paintings were included in the exhibition, causing him to reflect on his work. In gratitude, he offered two paintings, Razor (1924) and Watch (1925), to the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts in a letter to MacAgy dated September 19, 1960.
Excerpt from
Lora Sariaslan, "Gerald Murphy in Dallas," in Dallas Museum of Art 100 Years, eds. Dorothy Kosinski, et al. (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 2003), 20.
NOTES
I wrote the rules for this CC to link to both the artist and the exhibition.
I made the revisions requested by Sue and ASG on the June 2015 routed word document. I am removing the #routed tag and marking this note as #completed on 5/9/2016.
This note has not been pushed to Google Drive so I am removing the status tags and replacing them with draft and routed. When the note is updated in GDrive and the UMO is resolved, it can be tagged complete. 1/28/2017
I cataloged and completed the records in Piction including Murphy's letters and the image pulled from Wikimedia. I am removing the %PictionMW and %UMO pending tags. All revisions are complete and I am removing the routed tag and replacing with the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review. (3/2/2017)
This note originally had a rule that linked to the exhibition 10999. That rule has been removed as of December 2, 2016 based on Shyam's advice (in D3C meeting 9/29/2016) that exhibitions cannot be targets for rules until the various exhibition IDs are cleaned up (TMS, Piction, Archives, Brain- all assigned IDs).
ASSOCIATED CONTENT CHUNKS
AUDIO ASSETS
VIDEO ASSETS
IMAGE ASSETS
As a test, I am using the catalogue UMO as the image tag to illustrate this CC.
SIX LETTERS FROM MURPHY TO MACAGY. Three of these are double-sided and cataloged as recto/verso. The first page of each letter was scanned as a pdf. These are also duplicated as tif files. The 2nd side of the double-sided items only appears in Piction as a tif file. The object numbers for Watch and Razor have been entered in Piction.
Letter from Gerald Murphy to Douglas MacAgy; 1960-04-18; page 1 of 1
Personal stationary 'Gerald Murphy, Snedens Landing, Palisades, New York'; correspondence
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-18_001.pdf
253362685: UMO
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-18_001.tif
253365721: UMO
Letter from Gerald Murphy to Douglas MacAgy; 1960-04-26; recto of single page
Personal stationary 'Gerald Murphy, Snedens Landing, Palisades, New York'; correspondence
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-26.pdf
253362695: UMO
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-26_001.tif
253365737: UMO
Verso
Letter from Gerald Murphy to Douglas MacAgy; 1960-04-26; verso of single page
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-26_002.tif
253365754: UMO
Letter (postcard) from Gerald Murphy to Douglas MacAgy; 1960-04-27; verso
Postcard recto image is Juan Gris, 'Le Violin' 1916 (Basel, Kunstmuseum), Nr. 3898; correspondence
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-27.pdf
253362705: UMO
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-27_001.tif
253365770: UMO
Recto
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-04-27_002.tif
253365784: UMO
Letter from Gerald Murphy to Douglas MacAgy; 1960-08-05; page 1 of 1
Personal stationary 'Gerald Murphy, P.O. Box 1022, East Hampton, New York'; correspondence
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-08-05_001.pdf
253362715: UMO
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-08-05_001.tif
253365798: UMO
Letter from Gerald Murphy to Douglas MacAgy; 1960-09-19; recto of single page
Personal stationary 'Gerald Murphy, P.O. Box 1022, East Hampton, New York'; correspondence
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-09-19.pdf
253362725: UMO
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-09-19_001.tif
253365812: UMO
Verso
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-09-19_002.tif
253365826: UMO
Letter from Gerald Murphy to Douglas MacAgy; 1960-09-26; page 1 of 1
Personal stationary 'Gerald Murphy'; correspondence
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-09-26_001.pdf
253362735: UMO
Murphy-MacAgy_1960-09-26_001.tif
253365841: UMO
WEB RESOURCES
ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
American Genius in Review catalogue
12712873: UMO
FUN FACTS
TEACHING IDEAS
RULES
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General Description
It was not until 1960 that Murphy's painting was again in the limelight, and it happened in Dallas. Murphy was approached by Douglas MacAgy, Director of the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (DMCA), who was organizing an exhibition of the work of American modernist artists. Entitled American Genius in Review: I, the show not only presented the rediscovery of Gerald Murphy's work but marked the artist's first comprehensive exhibition in America. The exhibition opened in Dallas at the DMCA on 3415 Cedar Springs Road on May 11, 1960, and continued until June 19. This initiated a rich correspondence between Murphy and MacAgy. Murphy was moved that his paintings were included in the exhibition, causing him to reflect on his work. In gratitude, he offered two paintings, Razor (1924) and Watch (1925), to the Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts in a letter to MacAgy dated September 19, 1960.
Excerpt from
Lora Sariaslan, "Gerald Murphy in Dallas," in Dallas Museum of Art 100 Years, eds. Dorothy Kosinski, et al. (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 2003), 20.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
American Genius in Review catalogue
12712873: UMO
Web Resources
Notes
I wrote the rules for this CC to link to both the artist and the exhibition.
I made the revisions requested by Sue and ASG on the June 2015 routed word document. I am removing the #routed tag and marking this note as #completed on 5/9/2016.
This note has not been pushed to Google Drive so I am removing the status tags and replacing them with draft and routed. When the note is updated in GDrive and the UMO is resolved, it can be tagged complete. 1/28/2017
I cataloged and completed the records in Piction including Murphy's letters and the image pulled from Wikimedia. I am removing the %PictionMW and %UMO pending tags. All revisions are complete and I am removing the routed tag and replacing with the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review. (3/2/2017)
This note originally had a rule that linked to the exhibition 10999. That rule has been removed as of December 2, 2016 based on Shyam's advice (in D3C meeting 9/29/2016) that exhibitions cannot be targets for rules until the various exhibition IDs are cleaned up (TMS, Piction, Archives, Brain- all assigned IDs).
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