"Late Afternoon, " J. Francis Murphy Tonalist Summer / Autumn Landscape
By John Francis Murphy
Located in New York, NY
John Francis Murphy (American, 1853 - 1921)
Late Afternoon, 1895
Oil on canvas
14 x 19 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Housed in a reproduction fluted cove frame.
Provenance:
Kenneth Lux Gallery, Inc., New York
BNY Mellon, New York
Christie's New York, Living with Art, October 14, 2016, Lot 352
In his lifetime, John Francis Murphy (1853-1921) was known as “the American Corot.” He was renowned for his small, intimate views of nature, especially barren fields and farms, bare trees, and lonely marshland. More than a century later, the power of Murphy’s landscapes has not waned. One contemporary critic wrote, “It was Murphy’s unique accomplishment to achieve an absolute realism without a loss of that mystic, indefinable quality which transfigures realism.”
John Francis Murphy was born at Oswego, NY in 1853 but his family moved to Chicago in 1868 where he worked painting theater sets. Murphy was basically a self-taught artist; his only formal training was a few weeks of instruction at the Chicago Academy of Design.
In 1875, Murphy moved from Chicago to New York, eventually rooming with the painters Dennis Bunker...
Category
1890s Tonalist Soren Emil Carlsen Art
