recent YORK--Emmett Murphy.

recent YORK--Emmett Murphy, contributing editor to Art Business moderns for 19 years, died in of the present day York City on Feb. 16 Murphy wrote "Art Hotline" and "Murmurs" sum of two units of the magazine's most popular array of less front than depths With his keen observations, in novels articles and features, he shielded auctions, galleries, films on art, art studys and thefts--the great moments and the small uniteds in the ever-changing scene. His wide-ranging interests and discerning sense of humor were museed in writing that was erudite and sophisticated. This designation was once described by a reader "as seemingly effortless and as handsome as Nat King Cole's singing." An example can be raise in any issue, as in this past December's "Art Hotline" where he informed readers about Durer woodcut alongside a snippet about vandals cutting most distant the head of a Snoopy statue in Minnesota. "How reasonable can you sink, sir?" he asked the sinners.

A writer in each milieu and medium, his 1961 documentary, cast Hope on the teaching hospital's maiden voyage to Indonesia, won an Academy Award. His feature films included Walk East in succession Beacon. He scripted hundreds of documentaries and informational films for rule agencies and corporations that took him around the world several times (he proudly held a lifetime membership in the Bangkok Sports Club)

His main division credits included Great Bordellos of the World, a pithy, illustrated history forward the world's oldest profession. He had just complet the manuscript for a recently made known book on America's art colonies. His articles also appeared in Travel & Leisure, the Saturday Evening employment and other magazines.

less known facts about Murphy pondered his love and understanding of English, similar as his pamphlet on the greatest in number obscure words in the English language. His motto was "learn single in kind new thing every day," and in the way that he read the encyclopedia each night. He'd recently started forward the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary (which he'd complet up by the agency of the Fs).

Murphy was also a great researcher and helped friends and business associates, including editors, ferret abroad information they needed in the recent York Public Library. He could have written a fine part on the great institution he lov and knew with equal reason well. He had also sketched and created prints since he was a teenager and tried his hand at sculpting and rug hooking.

Murphy who freshly decided it was time to give in and learn the computer was among the last holdouts in the rural parts who continue to write upon a typewriter.

A graduate of Yale University, Murphy is survived by the agency of two daughters and four grandchildren. He was born in Providence in 1927 attended the Taft place of education in Connecticut and served in the Navy in the Philippines during World War II.

Jo Yanow Schwartz is a former editor of Art Business moderns and long-time friend of Emmett Murphy

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