ABOUT THE ARTIST - PROVENANCE AND FAME

J.H. Murphy's collection includes several hundred gelatin silver prints, photographs, film negatives & positives, advertisements, marketing materials, sketches, letters, and more.  His works span 1920-1950 most of which were created in the Worcester, MA and New Haven, CT areas.  Here he is featured on the cover of "Photographic Business and Industrial Photography Age" (1948).  Click on the image to view the complete magazine. 

His artwork was displayed at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry (1933), World’s Fair (1933), Pentagon (1943), Women's Department of Labor in D.C. (1943), and other buildings and military bases around the nation. He and his works also appeared in Kodak's “Applied Photography” Magazine (1931), "Photographic Business and Industrial Photography Age" Magazine (1948), and many more publications.  Along with appearing in major company advertisements and marketing materials.  

See some of his notable publications and letters he appeared in below.