Background
Murphy, Alice Harold was born on September 26, 1896 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of C. J. and Margaret (Harold) Conley.
Murphy, Alice Harold was born on September 26, 1896 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of C. J. and Margaret (Harold) Conley.
Student Parsons School, National Academy of Design Schools, New York City, 1921-1925, Art Students League, 1922-1923, Cape Cod Art School, 1922, 23, Academie Colorossi, Paris, France, 1931, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, 1932.
Painter in oils and water colors, etcher, lithographer since 1925. Guest artist Tiffany Foundation, Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1925-1930. Instructor National Academy of Design Schools, 1925-1939, Montclair Museum School, 1944-1945, Art Students League since 1945.
Director Highfield Art Workshop, Falmouth, Massachusetts, 1950.
Has exhibited in the United States, Europe, South America, Canada, and Hawaii. Had one-man show; Ferargil Gallery, 1936, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1942, Keywest Museum, 1952, Orono Museum, U. Maine, 1952, Chapellier Gallery 1953.
Represented in permanent collections Library of Congress, Springfield Art Museum, Williams College Museum, New York Public Library, Tiffany Foundation, Doctor Carl Jung (Switzerland), Philadelphia Art Alliance, Metropolitan Museum Art, U. Maine Museum Received honorable mention for paintings Connecticut Academy, 1928, 29, 100 best prints, 1936, 42, 47. 1st prize Springfield Art League, 1943, 1st print prize and presentation prize National Association Women Artists, 1946, print prize Wichita Art Association, 1939, 2d Altman prize figure painting National Academy of Design, 1951.
Member Society American Etchers, Boston Printmakers, Audubon Artists, Knickerbocker Artists, National Academy of Design (associate). Work reproduced in Prize Prints, by Arthur Reese, 1950.
Married John Jay Murphy, October 27, 1914.