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Gerald Murphy

Gerald Murphy (1888 - 1964) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Gerald Murphy is known for Abstract painting, precisionism, industrial themes.

A prominent figure and multi-talented artist of the Lost Generation of Avant-Garde Americans in Paris in the 1920s, Gerald Murphy was known for painting everyday objects in flat, un-modulated colors. He later said that he was "nourished on Leger's Picasso's, Braque's and Gris' abstractions." He worked painstakingly, producing only a handful of finished works in the decade of the 1920s.

Murphy, a tall, attractive, redheaded man, was from a wealthy family and was the heir to the Mark Cross leather fortune.  He graduated from Yale University in 1912, along with his future wife, Sara Wiborg, the daughter of a millionaire manufacturer of printing ink. Seeking to be independent from family pressures, the Murphys were among the first young Americans to go abroad and "fully immerse themselves in the active early Twentieth Century culture of Paris." (Antiques).  Underscoring Murphy's disdain for his family position, he was quoted as referring to his fami   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3848 characters.]  Artist bio

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