EUROPEAN & AMERICAN PAINTINGS 1830-1930

— ESTABLISHED 1992 —

Established in 1992, Mark Murray Fine Paintings specializes in European and American paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The gallery is located on the parlor floor of a town house at 116 East 62nd Street on a historic block between Park and Lexington Avenues. The Park Avenue Armory is four blocks north of the gallery, and the Museum of Illustration one block north. 

The gallery’s ever-changing collection includes a range of periods and subject matter, including paintings by the French and American Impressionists; Pre-Raphaelites; Hudson River School; Marine paintings by British and Scandinavian artists; Sporting art by British and American painters including racing and hunting subjects; landscapes by Corot and his followers in Barbizon; exquisite views of Italy and Spain; traditional 19th-century sculpture by Barye, Mêne and others; and a substantial selection of Orientalist paintings by artists such as Gérôme, Weeks, and Bridgman. Although most works date from 1830–1930, there are often exceptions, such as a group of 17th-century Italian drawings, 20th-century marine and sporting works, and several specially chosen contemporary paintings. 

Mark Murray Fine Paintings caters to an international group of collectors, designers, and private and public institutions. Many museums have acquired works from the gallery: among them the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Musée du Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, the Dahesh Museum, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, the San Diego Museum of Art, California, and the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. Paintings in the collection or acquired from the gallery have been included in major museum exhibitions at the British Library, London, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The gallery participates in various art fairs, most recently October Art Week in New York in 2020.

Mark Murray has given lectures in his field to the annual conference of the Appraisers Association of America, New York, the American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia and other museums, and Sotheby’s Institute, New York.

A complimentary illustrated catalogue is available upon request as are past annual gallery catalogues subject to availability. Articles about the gallery have appeared in numerous publications such as Architectural Digest, Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, American Fine Art, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Antiques & Fine Art, Art & Auction, The Art Newspaper, W, and Art & Antiques.

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