Nelly Littlehale Murphy
ARTISTNelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (1867–1941) was an American artist. She was born in Stockton, California, and moved to Boston when she married her first husband, Herman Umbstaetter. She drew many of the covers for The Black Cat, the magazine her husband edited from 1895 to 1912, and a collection of the covers was advertised as a free gift with subscriptions to the magazine in 1905. She studied with Joseph De Camp and Charles Howard Walker. Her first husband died in 1913, and she married Hermann Dudley Murphy in 1916. She died in 1941 in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her work is in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Copley Society of Art, and The Guild of Boston Artists. Her papers are in the Archives of American Art.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Nelly Littlehale Murphy, wall art & digital downloads
Nelly Littlehale Murphy (American, 1867–1941) has 2 public-domain artworks in the Archive Lane archive, each available as a digital download or a made-to-order print.
Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (1867–1941) was an American artist. She was born in Stockton, California, and moved to Boston when she married her first husband, Herman Umbstaetter. She drew many of the covers for The Black Cat, the magazine her husband edited from 1895 to 1912, and a collection of the covers was advertised as a free gift with subscriptions to the magazine in 1905. She studied with Joseph De Camp and Charles Howard Walker. Her first husband died in 1913, and she married Hermann Dudley Murphy in 1916. She died in 1941 in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her work is in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Copley Society of Art, and The Guild of Boston Artists. Her papers are in the Archives of American Art.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Nelly Littlehale Murphy's work on the site falls under Posters (2).
By movement, it's catalogued as Art Nouveau (2).
Culture: American (2).
By orientation: 2 portrait.
Dated work in this group ranges from 1895 to 1896.
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Prints of these artworks
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