Adah Murphy
(1859 - 1949)
Adah Clifford Murphy was active/lived in New York. Adah Murphy is known for landscape, portrait and miniature painting, illustration.
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A landscape, portrait, and miniature* painter, Ada Murphy was prominent in
eastern art circles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
She
was born in Saratoga, New York, and studied at Cooper Union Art School* and
with Douglas Volk in New York. In 1883, she married artist John Frances
Murphy, and they first established a studio in the Hotel Chelsea and
then built a home and studio in Arkville in the Catskill Mountains
where they taught art classes.
In 1886, they traveled and
painted in Europe.
She
became a member of the National Association of Women Artists* in 1914
and was a member of the National Arts Club*. Her work was exhibited in
twenty-five annual exhibitions at the National Acad ... Displaying 750 of 6916 characters.