
Hermann Dudley Murphy, American, b. Marlborough, MA, 1867, d. Lexington, MA, 1945. A painter of quiet, sunlit landscapes and refined still lifes, Hermann Dudley Murphy was a significant figure in the Boston School of Painting in the early twentieth century. Hermann Dudley Murphy was a portrait and landscape painter, art teacher, frame designer and illustrator born in Marlborough, MA in 1867. He studied at the Boston Museum School under Tarbell, Benson and DeCamp and at the Academie Julien in Paris. Known as a "Tarbellite" because he best emulated academic tradition with impressionism, Murphy became an Associate (1930) and an Academician (1934) of the National Academy and he was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Guild of Boston Artists, the National Arts Club, Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, the Copley Society, the Massachusetts State Art Commission, Painters & Sculptors Gallery Association, Woodstock Art Association and more. His work is represented at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, National Academy of Design, Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Cincinnati Museum of Art, and the St. Louis Art Museum. On exhibit: "Garth Gate, England, 1938". Signed H. Dudley Murphy, and with monogram lower right. Oil on canvas board. Dimensions: 12" x 16". Overall 21 1/2" x 24 " framed. Price $ |