biography of Albert (Ketcham) MURRAY (1906-1992)

Birth place: Emporia, KS

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Portrait & landscape painter

Studied: Cornell Univ.; Syracuse Univ. (B..FA., cum laude, 1930); in England & France, 1931; Wayman Adams in NY & Mexico, 1934-38.

Exhibited: Carnegie Inst., 1937; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1937, 1951; "Your Navy," MMA, 1948; "Am. War Paintings," Salon Marine, Paris, 1948; "Men Who Made Washington," NGA, 1951; Christie"s, 1996 (retrospective)

Work: NGA; NPG; NMAA; U.S. Naval Acad. Mus., Annapolis; Combat Art Coll., Navy Dept., Wash., DC. Portrait commissions: Alfred P. Sloan, Mem. Hospital, NYC, 1965; Rush Kress, Kress Found., NYC, 1954; Laurence Rockefeller, NY Zoological Soc., NYC, 1960; Arthur Sulzberger, New York Times, 1963; R.K. Mellon, Pittsburgh, 1964.

Comments: A combat artist during WWII, he also painted portraits of notable figures.

Sources: WW73; press release, Christie"s (NYC, Feb. 1996)