Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy
American artist (1867–1941)
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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]
Nelly Littlehale Murphy | |
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| Born | 1867 Stockton, California |
| Died | 1941 (aged 73–74) Lexington, Massachusetts |
| Known for | Painting, illustration |
List of exhibitions
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
