Overview
In the 1920's and 1930's Hermann Dudley Murphy, a prominent artist in the Boston School style of painting, executed still lifes in an academic Impressionist style with vibrant colors and with great technical skill that was very much in the tradition of Edmund Tarbell. Murphy was considered part of a group referred to as the "Tarbellites", but he had his own bold style and was very much "his own man". This period in Murphy's career was his last and most successful, one in which he finally seemed to "hit his own stride".
Memberships
Boston Art Club
Boston Guild of Artists
Boston Society of Arts and Crafts
Boston Society of Watercolor Painters
Boston Watercolor Club
Copley Society, 1886
Massachusetts State Art Commission
National Academy of Design, Associate, 1930
National Academy of Design, Member, 1934
National Arts Club
New York Watercolor Club
Painters and Sculptors Gallery Association
Salmagundi Club
Woodstock Art Association
Exhibitions
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (medal)
St. Louis Exposition, 1904 (medal)
Armory Show, New York 1913
Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 (medal)
Art Institute of Chicago, 1922 (medal)
North Shore Art Association, 1931 (prize)
Buck Hills, Pennsylvania, 1937 (prize)
Museums and Public Collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo
Art Institute of Chicago
Cincinnati Museum of Art
Cleveland Art Museum
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nashville Art association
National Academy of Design
St. Louis Art Museum
Springville Museum of Art, Utah