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Catherine E Murphy

Catherine E. Murphy (Born 1946) is active/lives in New York, Massachusetts.  Catherine Murphy is known for City scenes, figure, self portrait, still life and interior painting, lithographs.

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Catherine Murphy, a realist painter of city scenes, lower-middle-class figures, self-portraits, still-life and interiors, was born in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1946.  Whether lithographs* or oil paintings, Murphy creates a solidly realistic and moodily expressive views of herself and environment, often with windows looking out on some aspect of the urban or natural world.

Her father was an Irish musician, whose paying job was as a postal worker. She received her B.F.A. degree in 1967 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where her most influential teachers were Eugene Berman and Stephen Pace.  They taught her to work painstakingly on her paintings, follow her own inclination, which was realism* at a time when abstraction* was dominant, and look for inspiration to the Old Masters*, especially Leonardo da Vinci, Jan Vermeer and Jan Van Eyck. She also studied for a summer at the Skowhegan* School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine with California painter Elmer Bi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3291 characters.]  Artist bio

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