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Gertrude Burgess Murphy American Modern Post-War Reclining nude sculpture c. 1950
GERTRUDE BURGESS MURPHY (b. 1899) USA
Reclining nude sculpture c. 1950
Fired and glazed earthenware on a wooden base
Marks: original paper exhibition label (San Francisco Museum of Art, Rental Gallery); tape with the name of the artist
For more information on Murphy see: Who Was Who in American Art, ed. Peter Hastings Falk (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 439.
H: 5 7/8” x L: 10 5/8” x D: 5”
Price: $11,500
Gertrude Burgess Murphy American Modern Post-War Reclining nude sculpture c. 1950
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RAYMOND BARGER (1906-2001) USA
Sculpture c. 1955
Polychrome contoured wood of interlocking circular forms in white, blue and pink on a bronze base.
Signed: RB (artist initials), USA, Z0I
H: 8 1/2” x L: 12 ¾” x D: 8
Price: $5,800
Raymond Granville Barger was a sculptor working in metal, plastelin, and bronze among other materials. Barger was educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology and Yale University School of Fine Art. He received a Winchester Fellowship from Yale, and a special fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. Barger moved to California, where he died in 2001.
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