Michael Thomas Murphy

Background

Murphy, Michael Thomas was born on November 24, 1867 in Bantry Company Cork, Ireland. Son of Joseph and Jane (Thomas) Murphy.

Education

Educated National Schools. Apprenticed as marble carver in Cork. Studied School of Art, Cork, and later at Royal College of Art, London, and in Paris and Italy.

Career

Cork, October 1888. Came to the United States, 1912. Specializes in portraits and figure subjects in relief. Exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1918.

Principal works: Busts of Most Review George West. Mundelein and late Doctor John B. Murphy, of Chicago.

Aaron Blessing the Israelites, 4th Presbyterian Church, Lincoln Parkway, Chicago. Heroic size figures representing an athlete and a student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Achievements

• Michael Thomas Murphy has been listed as a noteworthy sculptor. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Art Workers’ Guild, Artists’ Annuity Fund (London), Chicago Society Artists.

Connections

Married Margaret Brennan, of Dunmanway, Company.

Father:

Joseph Murphy

Mother:

Jane (Thomas) Murphy

Spouse:

Margaret Brennan