ABOUT US
Mark Murray Fine Paintings is a gallery specializing in European and American paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The gallery’s ever-changing collection includes a range of periods and subject matter, including paintings by 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. Among the museums which have acquired works from the gallery are the National Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Musée du Louvre, Paris, the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, the Dahesh Museum, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and the San Diego Museum of Art, California. 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 international art fairs, including Master Drawings New York and the annual October Art Week, New York.
The gallery was founded in 1992 by Mark Murray who was raised in Oxford, England. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Art History at Harvard University in 1986 and subsequently spent six years as a senior specialist and Vice President at Sotheby’s, New York in the 19th Century European Paintings Department. Mr. Murray has lectured on his field at the National Conference of the Appraisers Association of America (2010); at classes in Art History and Arts Administration at Columbia University, New York University, Sotheby’s Institute, and at the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia. He frequently participates in seminars on art as a part of wealth management at financial institutions such as Alliance Bernstein.