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| John Francis Murphy
American 1853 -1921
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| Born: |
Oswego, New York, United States
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| Studied: |
Chicago Academy of Design
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| Examples of Work: |
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| Specialty: |
Painter
Illustrator
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| Style/School: |
Tonalist
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| Subjects Known For: |
Landscapes
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| Memberships: |
National Academy of Design ANA 1885; NA 1887
Salmagundi Club, New York
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Called "the American Corot," J. Francis Murphy was a painter of Tonalist landscapes who was renowned especially for small, intimate views of nature.
He was born in Oswego, New York, and moved at the age of fifte...
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Francis Murphy was a largely self-taught artist, although he studied briefly at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He was a leading Tonalist painter who was concerned with capturing the emotive poetry of landscapes. He used...
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J. Francis Murphy was America's premier Tonalist, whose landscapes bare his poetic style. Moving away from realistic depictions of nature, Murphy attempted to capture landscape's lyric potential, often applying several layer...
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