J. Francis Murphy
Landscape painter, largely self-taught. Born in Oswego, N.Y., he made the native contryside his subject matter. His early work was Barbizon influenced; the later, more popular, work was tonalist in style. His reputation declined considerably in the 1930s and 1940s.Joan StahlAmerican Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection(Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)
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J. Francis Murphy: Transform your home with the deeply tonal, moody, incredibly poetic late 19th-century American Tonalist landscapes of J. Francis Murphy.