Background
He was born in Emporia, Kansas.
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Albert Murray
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He studied at Cornell University and at the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences, where he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Career
He traveled to England and France for additional study and lived in Mexico for two years to receive instruction from Wayman Elbridge Adams. He fought in the Fourth Fleet and Eighth Fleet and sketched scenes of battle. After the war, Murray continued making portraits of naval war heroes.
He became director for the Navy Combat Art Collection and its Operation Palette.
Murray died in 1992 while visiting Gainesville, Florida.
Achievements
Membership
During World World War II, Murray was commissioned as a lieutenant of the Combat Art Section to produce portraits of members of the United States Navy General Board.
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American