biography of Alice Harold MURPHY (1896-1966)

Birth place: Springfield, MA

Death place: New York, NY (Chelsea Hotel)

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, etcher, lithographer, teacher

Studied: Parsons Sch. Des.; ASL; NAD; Acad. Colarossi; Grande Chaumiere, Paris, and with Charles Parsons Sch. of Des.; NY ASL; NAD; Acad. Colarossi and Grande Chaumiere, Paris; Cape Cod Art Sch., with Hawthorne, Vaclav Vytlacil.

Exhibited: Salons of Am.; CAFA, 1926, 1928;NAD, 1927, 1929, 1942-44, 1946, 1948-49, 1951 (prize); PAFA Ann., 1928, 1934; PAFA, 1948, 1950; WMAA, 1933; BM, 1933, 1935; Marie Harriman Gal., 1934-35; Wilmington SFA, 1934; Phila. WCC, 1934-35; AWCS, 1934, 1936; CAA, 1934, 1936; AIC, 1937; Ferargil Gal., 1936 (solo);100 Best Prints of the Year, 1936 (prize), 1942 (prize), 1947 (prize); Phila. A. All., 1938-39, 1942 (solo), 1949; Northwest Pr. M., 1938-39, 1943, 1945, 1948; Buffalo Pr. Cl., 1938, 1943; Phila. Pr. Cl., 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944-46, 1950; S. Indp. A., 1939; Artists for Victory," MMA, 1942; Springfield Mus. A., 1943 (prize); Mint Mus. A., 1943, 1946; Denver A. Mus., 1943; Albany Inst. Hist. & A., 1943, 1945; Rochester Pr. Cl., 1948; NAWA, 1948, 1946 (prize); SAGA, 1948; Wichita AA,1939 (prize), 1948-50; Orono Mus., Univ of Maine, 1952 (solo); Chapellier Gallery, 1954 (solo). Received awards at Conn. Acad., Springfield Art League, NAWA; Wichita Art Assn."

Member: ANA; SAGA; S. Wash. A.; NAWA; Rockport AA; Northwest Pr.M.; Boston Pr. M.; Audubon A.

Work: LOC; Phila. A. All.; Williams Col.; NYPL; MMA.; Springfield Mus. A.; ASL; Univ. Maine; Tiffany Foundation; and the Swiss collection of Dr. Carl Jung

Comments: Painter in oil, watercolor, printmaker (figures of women and children; paintings were called allegorical, symbolical and religious in spirit.) Positions: Instr., NAD Sch. A., 1935-39; Montclair (N.J.) A. Mus. Sch., 1944-45; ASL, New York, N.Y., 1945-. Awards: Carnegie Fellowship for Teaching; appointment as Guest Artist at the Tiffany Foundation for three years.

Sources: WW66; WW47; Pisano, One Hundred Years...the National Association of Women Artists, 73; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists, 515; Falk, Exh. Record Series.