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Ad Code: 4
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Jackson Square, Savannah
oil on canvas 34x26
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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The following biography has been provided by Karen Towers Klacsmann, Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Christopher Murphy, a largely self-taught artist, was born in Savannah on December 2, 1869, to Christopher and Mary Murphy, who had immigrated to Savannah from their native Ireland. The younger Murphy joined his father’s commercial painting business at the age of nineteen. Although he did not take formal art lessons, Christopher amassed a (showing 500 of 4901 characters). |
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