Minnie Lois Murphy was born February 8, 1901 in Lyons, Kansas. She earned a BS from Columbia Univ. Studied at the Art Students League and was a pupil of Boardman Robinson, Kimon Nicolaides, and George Grosz. By the late 1930s she was spending summers in Glendale, CA. Lived in Brooklyn, NY in 1953. She died in 1962.

Exhibitions: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1927, 1928, 1934; Society of Independent Artists, 1929; Art Institute of Chicago, 1930, 1931; Minneapolis Art Institute, 1930; Provincetown Art Assoc., 1930; Brooklyn Museum, 1931; Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, 1932; Riverside (CA) Museum, 1934, 1935, 1937; Wichita Art Assoc.1936; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1937; Northwest Printmakers, 1937; Wo

SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Who’s Who in American Art. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1936-1953; AskART, www.askart.com, accessed Dec. 23, 2007.

This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas....