Catherine Murphy
Catherine Murphy is an American artist whose career took off after her inclusion in the 1971 Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A two-time recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts grant (1979 and 1989), Murphy has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982) and the Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize in 2013. She served as a Senior Critic at Yale University Graduate School of Art for 22 years and as the Tepper Family Endowed Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers.
Widely considered one of America’s greatest contemporary realist painters, her lithographs, drawings and oil paintings have been collected by The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Public Library, The Smithsonian American Art Museum and more. Murphy lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York.
(right) Catherine Murphy at Corridor Press in Philadelphia, PA, 1992.
