Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy
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Born | 1867 Stockton, California |
Died | 1941 (aged 73–74) Lexington, Massachusetts |
Known for | Painting, illustration |
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Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (1867–1941) was an American artist.[1] She was born in Stockton, California,[2] and moved to Boston when she married her first husband, Herman Umbstaetter.[3] She drew many of the covers for The Black Cat, the magazine her husband edited from 1895 to 1912,[4] and a collection of the covers was advertised as a free gift with subscriptions to the magazine in 1905.[5] She studied with Joseph De Camp and Charles Howard Walker.[2] Her first husband died in 1913, and she married Hermann Dudley Murphy in 1916.[2] She died in 1941 in Lexington, Massachusetts.[1] Her work is in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art[6] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.[7] She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Copley Society of Art , and The Guild of Boston Artists.[1] Her papers are in the Archives of American Art.[8]
List of exhibitions
[edit]Her exhibitions included the following:[2]
- Boston City Club: 1916
- Guild of Boston Artists: 1926 (solo) and 1937
- Macbeth Gallery, New York: 1929 (solo)
- Boston Art Club: 1929
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Hirshler, Erica E. (2001). A studio of her own: women artists in Boston, 1870-1940 [exhibition, Museum of fine arts, Boston, August 15-December 2, 2001]. Boston, Mass: Museum of fine arts. p. 186. ISBN 0878464824.
- ^ a b c d "Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter". Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia. 2015. Archived from the original on August 1, 2015.
- ^ Bessom (1920), pp. 84–92.
- ^ Stephensen-Payne, Phil (November 18, 2022). "Index: Artists: Page 109". Galactic Central. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
- ^ Anonymous (October 1905), pp. vi–vii.
- ^ "Nelly Littlehale Murphy". Addison Gallery. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "Artist/Maker: Nelly Littlehale Murphy". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ "A Finding Aid to the Nelly Littlehale Murphy papers, 1846-1945". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
Sources
[edit]- Anonymous (October 1905). "Something New!". The Black Cat. Vol. 11, no. 1. pp. vi–vii. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
- Bessom, Harold E. (October 1920). "The Story of The Black Cat". The Black Cat. Vol. 25, no. 12. pp. 84–92. Retrieved November 4, 2022.
External links
[edit]Media related to Nelly Littlehale Murphy at Wikimedia Commons
- Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy at Find a Grave
- Black Cats, Still Lifes & Cloud Makers:The Astonishing Fantasy Art of Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter by John Howe