Hermann Dudley Murphy

Hermann Dudley Murphy was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, in 1867. After studying at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, he worked as a newspaper and magazine illustrator before traveling to Paris to study at the Académie Julian. In Europe he encountered the Aesthetic movement and the work of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Murphy began working in a similarly ethereal, dreamy, and Tonalist style. He returned to the United States in 1903, where he became a leading Boston artist.