Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Murch, Walter
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content: Walter Tandy Murch papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: (Box 1-3, 10; 1.8 linear feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.murcwalt, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Correspondence primarily consists of letters exchanged with arts organizations, art schools, and universities including Boston University, Columbia University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, Skowhegan School, and Yaddo, and with students in which Murch discusses his activities as art instructor and juror for art exhibitions. Letters exchanged with miscellaneous companies and publishing houses discuss Murch's commercial art work commissioned by them. The exhibition of Murch's fine art work is discussed in letters exchanged with various art galleries including the Betty Parsons Gallery. There are scattered letters from Isabel Bishop, Leonard Bocour, Xavier Gonzales, and Gyorgy Kepes, and correspondence with miscellaneous family members and letters to Katharine Scott from her father Thomas Beckett Scott.