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1868 |
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At the age of fifteen, John Francis Murphy went west with his family to Chicago, where he began painting billboards
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1874 |
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moved to New York, first to sketch in the Adirondacks (where he met Winslow Homer), then to open a studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City
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1895 |
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Murphy worked in his studio at Arkville, in the Catskills
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