The walls of Edmonds City Hall just got a little more colorful.
Seven paintings from the personal collection of David and Nancy Murphey were recently donated to the city of Edmonds by their family.
The paintings, including one by Thomas Wells, are on permanent display in the third-floor reception area at City Hall, 121 Fifth Ave. N, and may be viewed by the public during building hours, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
David Murphey moved to Seattle from New York in 1967, establishing himself as a freelance commercial artist. In the process of looking for a place where he could work on his sculpture, he answered an ad for teachers for the newly formed Sculptor’s Workshop. Murphey served as co-director of the Sculptor’s Workshop in Edmonds from 1967-2008.
Six of the donated paintings are by members of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters (PSGNWP), to which David Murphey was admitted as the first sculptor. PSGNWP was founded in 1928 by Eustace Ziegler and is one of the longest self-sustaining art groups in the United States. They have supported art in the community by contributing thousands of dollars each year in scholarship funds, cash awards for juried art shows and art book funds for the public library.
The city’s art collection contains work by a number of PSGNWP members, including a sculpture by David Murphey and paintings by Guy Anderson, Arne Jensen, Ken Duffin and Frank Bigford.
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