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Hermann Dudley Murphy

Hermann Dudley Murphy (1867 - 1945) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Hermann Murphy is known for Tonalist landscape painter, still life, portrait.

A major figure in the Boston School style of painting and also as a painter in the Tonalist style emanating from Barbizon, France, Herman Murphy did a variety of subject matter beginning with portraits and figure studies and later painting still lifes, seascapes and landscapes.  He was especially noted for his floral still lifes, a subject he turned to in the 1920s, later in his career, and depicted with Impressionist style, classical format, sculptural appearance of featured subject, and decorative background patterning.  Many of these still lifes had images of exquisite Chinese porcelains, bronzes, rugs, and antiques.

Murphy was born in Marlboro, Massachusetts and became a student of Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson at the Boston Museum School.  In 1891, he traveled to Paris and enrolled at the Academy Julian as a student of Jean Paul Laurens.  In painting and also in designing and making of frames, he was the most influenced by James Whistler   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8456 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Hermann Dudley Murphy

   Publications  Book References:  52
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Hermann Dudley Murphy
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Guild of Boston Artists: 90th Anniv October 2004 Curtis, Judith A Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming March 2004 Ledes, Allison Eckardt Yes
American Art Review Arthur Wesley Dow: American Arts/Cr December 1999 Green, Nancy E Yes
American Art Review Charles H Woodbury & His Students August 1998 Culver, Michael Yes
American Art Review Bruce Museum June 1997 Hall-Duncan, Nancy Yes
The Magazine Antiques Stanford White's Frames March 1997 Adair, William Yes
52 Book References for Hermann Dudley Murphy
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.)
(Exhibition catalog)
200 Yes
2003 Leeds, Valerie (Essay) Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries)
(Exhibition catalog)
88 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2002 Vose, Marcia L. (editor) Vose Art Notes Tenth Anniversary Issue Art and Collecting in America: An Illustrated Timeline 37 Yes
2001 Spanierman, Deborah (essay) 110 Years of American Art:1830-1940 (Spanierman Galleries, LLC)
(Exhibition catalog)
136 Yes
2000 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn Boston Art Club: 1855-1950 88 Yes
2000 Vose, Marcia L , editor Vose Art Notes Works on Paper 29 Yes
2000 Wilner, Eli et al The Gilded Edge 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Green, Nancy; Frederick Moffatt; Marilee Meyer, Richard Boyle, et all Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence (Spanierman Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)
210 Yes
1999 Greenwich Gallery Greenwich Gallery: A Collector's and Designer's Source
(Exhibition catalog)
11 Yes
1999 Jarzombek, NA, Marcia Vose Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America 29 Yes
1999 Love, Richard H; William H. Marshall The Marshall Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
108 Yes
1998 McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator) Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles 223 Yes
1995 Nash, Steven A Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area 216 Yes
1991 Weaver, Jane Calhoun (editor) Sadakichi Hartmann Critical Modernist, Collected Art Writings 410 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Simpson, Marc (Mills, Saville) The American Canvas/Paintings from Collection Fine Art Museum, San Fran 254 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Gammell, R H Ives The Boston Painters 1900-1930 204 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Huneker, James G/Arnold Schwab Americans in the Arts 1890-1920 672 No
1985 Leff, Sandra/Elizabeth Kvam Hermann Dudley Murphy Boston Painter at Home and Abroad
(Exhibition catalog)
16 Yes
1982 Coles, William A Hermann Dudley Murphy Realism Married to Idealism
(Exhibition catalog)
40 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1980 Pierce, Patricia Jobe Edmund C Tarbell and the Boston School of Painting (1889-1980) 285 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)
1075 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1963 Brown, Milton W The Story of the Armory Show
(Exhibition catalog)
320 No
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1940 Klug, William L (Introductory Essay) Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)
64 No
1937 Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay) Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
215 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
Brock, Mark L. Selections I (Brock & Co)
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
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