Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy

Nelly Littlehale Murphy
Nelly Littlehale Murphy
Born	1867; Stockton, California
Died	1941 (aged 73–74); Lexington, Massachusetts
Known for	Painting, illustration

Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (1867–1941) was an American artist.^[1] She was born in Stockton, California,^[2] and moved to Boston when she married her first husband, Herman Umbstaetter.^[3] She drew many of the covers for The Black Cat, the magazine her husband edited from 1895 to 1912,^[4] and a collection of the covers was advertised as a free gift with subscriptions to the magazine in 1905.^[5] She studied with Joseph De Camp and Charles Howard Walker.^[2] Her first husband died in 1913, and she married Hermann Dudley Murphy in 1916.^[2] She died in 1941 in Lexington, Massachusetts.^[1] Her work is in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art^[6] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.^[7] She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Copley Society of Art , and The Guild of Boston Artists.^[1] Her papers are in the Archives of American Art.^[8]

List of exhibitions

Her exhibitions included the following:^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c Hirshler, Erica E. (2001). A studio of her own: women artists in Boston, 1870-1940 [exhibition, Museum of fine arts, Boston, August 15-December 2, 2001]. Boston, Mass: Museum of fine arts. p. 186. ISBN 0878464824.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter". Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia. 2015. Archived from the original on August 1, 2015.
^ Bessom (1920), pp. 84–92.
^ Stephensen-Payne, Phil (November 18, 2022). "Index: Artists: Page 109". Galactic Central. Archived from the original on November 18, 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
^ Anonymous (October 1905), pp. vi–vii.
^ "Nelly Littlehale Murphy". Addison Gallery. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
^ "Artist/Maker: Nelly Littlehale Murphy". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
^ "A Finding Aid to the Nelly Littlehale Murphy papers, 1846-1945". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 10 January 2025.

Anonymous (October 1905). "Something New!". The Black Cat. Vol. 11, no. 1. pp. vi–vii. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
Bessom, Harold E. (October 1920). "The Story of The Black Cat". The Black Cat. Vol. 25, no. 12. pp. 84–92. Retrieved November 4, 2022.