Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy

Nelly Littlehale Murphy
Born1867 (1867)
Stockton, California
Died1941 (aged 73–74)
Lexington, Massachusetts
Known forPainting, illustration

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

Her exhibitions included the following:[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d "Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter". Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia. 2015. Archived from the original on August 1, 2015.
  3. ^ Bessom (1920), pp. 84–92.
  4. ^ Stephensen-Payne, Phil (November 18, 2022). "Index: Artists: Page 109". Galactic Central. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  5. ^ Anonymous (October 1905), pp. vi–vii.
  6. ^ "Artist/Maker: Nelly Littlehale Murphy". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  7. ^ "A Finding Aid to the Nelly Littlehale Murphy papers, 1846-1945". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 10 January 2025.

Sources

  • 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.