Michael Murphy – Sunset Trip – acrylic on canvas 18×24″ $1800

Los Angeles in the 60s: clubs, go-go girls, and the 1955 Parker Center police station

Michael Murphy – United Architecture – acrylic on canvas 24×36″ $3000

Le Corbusier inspried architecture in the desert.

Michael Murphy – Two (Larusso Residence) – acrylic on canvas 18×24″ $2800

Dingbat apartments featured in The Karate Kid

Michael Murphy – A Thing About Machines – acrylic on canvas 36×24″ $3400

Chinatown Sheraton is a fine example of SF Brutalism

Michael Murphy – Walking Distance – acrylic on canvas 36×24″ $3400

SF Downtown, Embarcadero Center, painted as a tribute to great architecture.

Michael Murphy – House for the Last Man on Earth – acrylic on canvas 18×36″ $2600

Imagined architecture of a house in the desert.

Michael Murphy – Back There – acrylic on canvas 24×36″ $3000

View from behind SFMOMA. Pared down building details to reveal massing.

Michael Murphy – Lupine – acrylic on board 8×12″ $500. Framed.

Apartment building on Lupine Street in Laurel Heights, San Francisco.

Michael Murphy – Before Long – acrylic on canvas 18×24″ $1800

Imagined desert architecture with the context of atomic bomb testing.

Michael Murphy – The Airport 3 – acrylic on paper 19×11″ $1000. Framed.

Michael Murphy – Villiancourt – acrylic on canvas 18×24″ $2400

A study of a complex sculpture. When it is fully up and running it’s a an incredible experience.

Michael Murphy – The Airport 2 – acrylic on paper 19×11″ $1000. Framed.

Michael Murphy – The Mission – gouache on canvas 18×12″ $800. Framed.

A collage of Mission District architecture, with the Russian Hill ‘Eichler Summit’ building added.

Michael Murphy – What You Need – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2800

Chemosphere House in Los Angles by John Lautner.

Michael Murphy – Night Call – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2800

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard House (La Miniatura) in Pasadena. An early use of concrete block construction introduced the modular concept.

Michael Murphy – Four O’Clock – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2400

A fragment of the long gone Pereira designed building LACMA.

Michael Murphy – Eye of the Beholder – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2600

Michael Murphy – House in the Excelsior District – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2400

Facade study of a house in the Excelsior, San Francisco. Great proportions and massing.

Michael Murphy – The Silence – acrylic on canvas 18×24″ $2800

An example of Googie architecture. NORMS opened on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles in 1957

Michael Murphy – Johnie’s on Wilshire – acrylic on canvas 18×24″ $2800

1950s ‘Googie architecture’ at its finest. Johnie’s Coffee Shop at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles

Michael Murphy – Empire State – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2400

A dirigible moored in the 1930’s to the Empire State building. Inspired by architectural illustrator Hugh Ferris

Michael Murphy – Pan Pacific – acrylic on canvas 12×12″ $800

Pan Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles. Iconic art deco facade.

Michael Murphy – Frey No 3 – acrylic on canvas 36×24″ $4000

Iconic Palm Springs architecture

Michael Murphy – North Beach Scene – acrylic on wood skate deck 32×8″ $1800

Michael Murphy – Lucky Dice off the Strip – acrylic on panel 6×24″ $1000

Michael Murphy – North Beach Alley Scene – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2400

A late night scene at Saroyan Lane, North Beach

Michael Murphy – Abstraction – gouache and acrylic on paper $500. Framed.10x9in

Color composition inspired by jazz

Michael Murphy – Savoy – acrylic on paper 11x14in $1200. Framed.

Grant Avenue abstraction including the Savoy Tivoli

Michael Murphy – The Painted Ladies – acrylic on paper 14x11in $800. Framed.

“Painted Ladies” of the Sunset District San Francisco

Michael Murphy – Marin County First Class – acrylic on canvas 20×14″ $1000

Marin County Civic Center post office by Frank Lloyd Wright

Michael Murphy – Marin Modern – acrylic on canvas 14×10″ $1000

Birkenstock factory in Novato. Unique sculptural parabolic roof structures.

Michael Murphy – You Had to be There – acrylic on canvas 36×18″ $3000

Transamerica pyramid from an atypical point of view.

Michael Murphy – Green Street – gouache on paper 19×12″ $1400 Framed.

Telegraph Hill abstraction with some local restaurants: Gino and Carlo, Sodini’s, Golden Boy Pizza

Michael Murphy – Chinatown – gouache and acrylic on paper 12×8″ Framed $900

Chinatown San Francisco

Michael Murphy – Murios – acrylic on canvas 12×12″ $800

Murio’s Trophy Room, a Haight Street haunt with great art deco facade. San Francisco

Michael Murphy – Aub Zam Zam – acrylic on canvas 12×12″ $800

aka Zam Zam (‘Persian Oasis’) at 1633 Haight Street near Belvedere San Francisco

Michael Murphy – Scottys House – Acrylic on Canvas 14x8in Framed $900

Scotty’s House from the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo.

Michael Murphy – LAX – acrylic on canvas 12x12in $900

Mosaic lined tunnels in LAX, designed by Janet Bennett in 1961, representing the coast to coast colors of the US.

Michael Murphy – It’s A Good Life – acrylic on canvas 24×18″ $2400

The facade of the Los Angeles Parker Center, home to LAPD for many years.

Michael Murphy – Casa de Kahlo/Rivera – acrylic on canvas 18×24″ $2400

House/Studio Museum of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, designed by Juan O’Gorman 1929. Mexico.

Michael Murphy – A World of His Own – acrylic on canvas 20×30″ $3400

A very detail-free LA dingbat apartment – simple and elegant

Michael Murphy – Galaxy’s Edge – acrylic on canvas 12×24″ $1800