Henry Cruse Murphy, (American, 1886-1931)
Sails of Sunset
Oil on board
24 x 15.5 in.
Private collection
Henry Cruse Murphy, Jr., (1886-1931), was
born February 26, 1886 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a member of one of Brooklyn's
oldest families. In 1904 he graduated from a Brooklyn public high school, after
which he attended Columbia University School of Applied Science for a degree in
Electrical Engineering, Class of 1908.
Thanks to
his natural drawing talent he became popular among classmates as a gifted
cartoonist. He contributed illustrations to the student newspaper, of which he
eventually became the art editor. Encouraged by these achievements he decided
to pursue an artistic career. In September 1907 he transferred to the School of
Fine Arts.
In the
summer of 1909 he moved to a working class tenement at 425 West 26th Street,
and at the same time opened an art studio, where he struggled to find work as a
newspaper cartoonist.
By 1910 he
was living back at home with his parents in Brooklyn, while spending the warmer
months working as a landscape artist with oil paints and watercolors at his
family's country home in Indian Chase Park near Greenwich, CT.
On
February 10, 1918 he reported for draft registration in the Great War, he was
not selected for military service.
Throughout
the 1920s he painted many cover illustrations for pulp magazines. In 1924 he
painted the historic World War battle scene of the U.S. Army 27th Division
breaking through the Hindenburg Line. The painting is in the permanent
collection of the National Museum in Washington, DC.
Henry C. Murphy, Jr. died of cancer in Greenwich, CT, at
the age of forty-five on January 1, 1931. More on Henry Cruse
Murphy
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