John Francis Murphy, N.A. was born in Oswego, New York on December 11, 1853. In 1868, at the age of fifteen, Murphy went west with his family to Chicago, where he began painting billboards and theater backdrops. He did receive a few weeks of training at the Chicago Academy of Design. In 1874 he moved to New York where he was employed as an illustrator.
He started sketching in the Adirondacks (where he met Winslow Homer), then to open a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Buildi (showing 500 of 5314 characters). |
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