Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy

Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (1867–1941) was an American artist.^[1] She was born in Stockton, California,^[1] and moved to Boston when she married her first husband, Herman Umbstaetter.^[2] She drew many of the covers for The Black Cat, the magazine her husband edited from 1895 to 1912,^[3] and a collection of the covers was advertised as a free gift with subscriptions to the magazine in 1905.^[4] She studied with Joseph De Camp and Charles Howard Walker.^[1] Her first husband died in 1913, and she married Hermann Dudley Murphy in 1916.^[1]

List of exhibitions

Her exhibitions included the following:^[1]

Boston City Club: 1916
Guild of Boston Artists: 1926 (solo) and 1937
Macbeth Gallery, New York: 1929 (solo)
Boston Art Club: 1929

References

Sources

Anonymous (October 1905). "Something New!". The Black Cat. Vol. 11, no. 1. pp. vi–vii. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
Bessom, Harold E. (October 1920). "The Story of The Black Cat". The Black Cat. Vol. 25, no. 12. pp. 84–92. Retrieved November 4, 2022.

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