Chaterine Palace-Tsarsco Selo

Richard Murray

With abstemious compositional refinement and acute spatial determination, Richard D. Murray's scenes provide austerely forthright observation of human frailty and resonated portrayal of decocted moral adage. The balance of their appeal, beyond an eye of detached bemusement, pivots upon the direct and honest accessibility applied in their rhythm of form and tonal discrimination.

Temptation 36" x 48"

Thai Dancers 36" x 48"

A retired surgeon who has devoted his attentions to painting, Murray studied art at Notre Dame and also holds academic degrees fro Universities of Pennsylvania and Georgetown. Having had one man shows in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, Dr. Murray also has a number of monumental marble and limestone sculptures at the Butler and Mill Creek Park in Youngstown and murals at the Youngstown Symphony Center. He is the author of a number of non-medical books, including The Rise and Fall of the State and Other Works (1996) The Key to Nostradamus (1975) Signs and Wonders (1979) and The Harlot and the Scarlet Beast (1983). A Knights Hospitaller who has circumvented the globe six times, Dr. Murray has paintings in the collections of the Dukes of Atholl and the Earls of Mansfield of Scotland as well as the Archduke Otto von Hapsburg.