Gerald Murphy

1888–1964 (age 76)

Painter

Biography

Gerald Murphy, born in 1888, became a painter and patron whose elegant still lifes and sharp wit reflected the Atlantic crossings of the Jazz Age; he chose color, design, and a cosmopolitan palette that captured the era's fascination with travel and modernity.

Though he exhibited sparingly, Murphy's circle of friends—Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other expatriate artists—inspired him to champion an aesthetic of clarity that influenced subsequent generations of American modernists.

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