Gerald Murphy

American | 1888 - 1964

Gerald Murphy was an American artist who was born in 1888. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Whitney Museum of American Art have featured Gerald Murphy's work in the past.The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "Yellow Rose" at Kaminski Auctions in 2011.Gerald Murphy has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. The most recent article is New York Art Museums and Ice Cream Shops: A Guide to Perfect Pairings written for ARTnews in October 2019. The artist died in 1964.

78 1/2 x 78 7/8 in. (1 m 99.39 cm x 2 m 0.343 cm)

Razor, 1924

Oil on canvas

32 1/16 x 36 1/2 in. (81.44 x 92.71 cm) Framed dimensions: 34 x 38 in. (86.36 x 96.52 cm)

At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Yellow Rose

By Gerald Murphy

+260%

above mid-estimate

Kaminski Auctions

Past Exhibitions

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Greenwich Village | New York | USA

Apr 27,2016 - Feb 12,2017

America Is Hard to See

Whitney Museum of American Art

Greenwich Village | New York | USA

May 01,2015 - Sep 27,2015

Art and Appetite: American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine

The Art Institute of Chicago

Loop | Chicago | Illinois | USA

Nov 12,2013 - Jan 27,2014

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Articles

New York Art Museums and Ice Cream Shops: A Guide to Perfect Pairings

ARTnews 28/10/2019

Joseph Cornell kept his ice box in Queens stocked with “cake, ice cream, and all sorts of sweets,” according to fellow artist Roberto Matta.

Exhibition Explores Early 20th-Century American Culture's Love Affair with Technology and Mechanization

ArtDaily 16/09/2018

The Dallas Museum of Art presents the first large-scale traveling exhibition in over 20 years to look at early 20th-century American culture’s love affair with technology and mechanization that influenced architecture, design, and the visual arts. Hailed as “illuminating”...

‘This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today’ Review

The Wall Street Journal 19/07/2016

Works that go beyond appearances to capture a subject’s identity, achievements and personality.

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Coverage

“ ..Often portrayed simply as wealthy patrons, the Murphys in fact improvised their own brand of unconventional modernism that was a source of inspiration to their many talented friends... ”
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DMA, Dallas Museum of Art