Jesse Murry with John Constable’s paint brushes, Somerset, England, 1991. Photograph by Richard Constable. Courtesy of The Jesse Murry Foundation.
Jesse Murry Papers
Hauser & Wirth Institute is processing the archive of Jesse Murry, a painter, poet, and art critic, who died in 1993 from AIDS-related illness. Murry came to painting through art criticism, and his writings on art, collected in Painting is a Supreme Fiction, continue to have an impact on students today. These materials, lovingly preserved for decades by his friends, include Murry’s personal writings and documentation of his brief but compelling career as a painter.
The Institute will process and selectively digitize the archive, and will support the Jesse Murry Foundation in finding a permanent home for donation of the collection.