BIOGRAPHY
1946 Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1966 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1967 BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
• Peter Freeman, Inc, New York. Catherine Murphy: Recent Work. (12 November 2021 – 8 January 2022)
2018
• Peter Freeman, Inc, New York. Catherine Murphy: Recent Work. (11 January – 24 February)
2016
• Sargent’s Daughters, New York. Working Drawings. (27 February – 27 March 2016)
2013
• Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock. Give and Take. (28 June – 11 August)
• Peter Freeman, Inc, New York. Catherine Murphy: Recent Work. (14 March – 27 April)
2012
• Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Catherine Murphy: Falk Visiting Artist. (15 September – 9 December)
2010
• Knoedler & Company at The Armory Show—Modern, New York. Knots: Catherine Murphy. (4 – 7 March)
2008
• Knoedler & Company, New York. Catherine Murphy: New Work. (1 May – 1 August)
2006
• Texas Gallery, Houston. Catherine Murphy. (11 April – 13 May)
2005
• Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: Paintings & Drawings 2001-2004. (9 February – 19 March)
2002
• Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. Catherine Murphy: Paintings & Drawings. (23 November – 21 December)
2001
• Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: Paintings & Drawings 1999-2001. (22 September – 3 November)
1999
• Texas Gallery, Houston. Catherine Murphy: Paintings. (29 January – 27 February)
1998
• Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C. (18 April – 22 May)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: New Work. (18 April – 22 May)
1995
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: Paintings 1992-95. (7 October – 11 November)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: Works on Paper 1980-95. (29 April – 27 May)
1994
• Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville. Catherine Murphy, Her World. (2 November 1994 – 15 January 1995)
1992
• Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy. (5 March – 11 April)
1989
• Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: New Paintings and Drawings. (11 November – 22 December).
1988
• J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Ltd., Chicago. Catherine Murphy, Paintings and Drawings. (4 – 29 November)
1985
• Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: New Paintings and Drawings 1980-1985. (20 November – 20 December).
1979
• Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: Recent Paintings. (1 – 26 May)
1976
• The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Catherine Murphy: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs. (14 February – 28 March).
Exhibition travelled: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (21 April – 30 May).
1975
• Fourcade, Droll, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy: Recent Paintings. (15 February – 15 March)
1972
• 1st Street Gallery, New York. Catherine Murphy: Paintings. (26 March – 11 April).
Exhibition travelled: Piper Gallery, Lexington.
• Piper Gallery, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
• Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, New York. Still Life and the Poetry of Place. (3 September – 16 October)
2021
• Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Eye to Eye. Curated by Katie Rashid. (19 June – 30 July)
• David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. The Beatitudes of Malibu. (15 May – 2 July)
• The National Exemplar, Iowa City. Ceiling Paintings. (1 February – 10 April)
2020
• The National Exemplar, Iowa City. Catherine Murphy – Terry Winters: PORTRAITS. (1 February – 10 April 2020)
2018
• Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today. (8 November 2018 – 8 September 2019)
2017
• Drents Museum and Kunsthalle Emden, Emden. The American Dream: American Realism 1945-2017. (19 November 2017 – 27 May 2018)
• Lennon Weinberg Inc, New York. Citings/ Sightings. (22 June – 16 September)
• Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. Graphite Vision. (24 March – 23 April)
• Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn. The State of NY Painting: Work of Intimate Scale by 26 Colorists. (4 March – 8 April)
• Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles. Really? (4 November – 23 December)
2016
• Cheim & Read, New York. The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men. (23 June – 2 September)
• BravinLee Programs, New York. Introspective. (4 February – 19 March)
2015
• Mana Contemporary Arts Center, Jersey City. Intimacy in Discourse: Reasonable-sized and Unreasonable-sized Paintings, curated by Phong Bui. (18 October – 22 December)
• Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York. Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself. (24 September – 31 October 2015)
• Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York. “A Few Days”. (7 October 2015 – 19 December)
2012
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Lifelike. (25 February – 27 May)
Exhibition travelled: New Orleans Museum of Art (10 November 2012 – 27 January 2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (24 February – 26 May 2013); Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin (23 June – 29 September 2013); Phoenix Museum of Art (March – May 2014)
2011
• Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Welcome Back Show. (14 September – 24 September)
• Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo. Refocusing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters. (15 October – 29 November)
2010
• Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Aichi. Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting. (24 April –12 September)
• Texas Gallery, Houston. 40. (15 June – 31 July)
• Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. Wall-to-Wall. (5 June – 14 August)
• Theodore:art, New York. It’s the Uncertainty: Jonathan Calm, Barry LeVa, Catherine Murphy, Peter Soriano, Andrew Witkin. (11 September – 3 October)
2009
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. The Quick and the Dead. (25 April – 27 September)
• Frye Art Museum, Seattle. Open Roads and Bedside Tabels: American Modernism in the Frye Collection. (26 September 2009 –10 January 2010)
2008
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus. (11 December 2008 – 23 February 2009)
• Katonah Museum of Art, New York. Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life. (30 March – 29 June)
2007
• The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton. All the More Real: Portraits of Intimacy and Empathy. (12 August – 14 October)
2006
• Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge. Nominally Figured: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art. (8 June 2006 – 18 March 2007)
• I-20 Gallery, New York. Men. (22 June – 18 August)
2005
• The New York Academy of Sciences, New York. The Obligation to Endure: Art & Ecology Since Silent Spring. (4 November 2005 – 13 January 2006)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Group Exhibition: Gallery Artist. (24 June – 12 August)
• Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York. This must be the place. (6 – 20 February)
2004
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Toys in the Attic. (1 June – 20 August)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Group Show. (January)
2003
• Feature, Inc., New York. Mighty Graphitey. (19 June – 8 August)
2002
• Frye Art Museum, Seattle. The Perception of Appearance. (25 July – 22 September)
• Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge. Some Options in Realism. (11 March – 14 April)
• The Painting Center, New York. Painting: a passionate response, Seventeen Artists. (5 February – 2 March)
2001
• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca. Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing. (31 March - 17 June)
2000
• Lobby Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge. Inside Out: The Space of Landscape + Architecture. (23 October – 19 November)
• Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc., Staten Island. The Figure: Another Side of Modernism. (4 June – 15 January)
• Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford. Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art. (25 May – 23 August)
• D.C. Moore Gallery, New York. The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by 60 Women Artists. (12 January – 5 February)
1999
• The Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Conceptual Realism. (3 November - 2 December)
• The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa. Green Wood and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since 1950. (12 September – 7 November).
Exhibition travelled: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota (14 January – 19 March 2000); Davenport (16 April – 24 June)
• Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans. Beyond the Mountians: the Contemporary American Landscape. (11 December 1999 – 13 February 2000).
Exhibition travelled: Muskegon Museum of Art (26 February – 9 April); Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland (27 May – 6 August); Boise Art Museum (12 August – 22 October); Fort Wayne Museum of Art (18 November 2000 – 14 January 2001); The Lyman Allyn Museum, New London.
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Catherine Murphy, Joan Mitchell, Harriet Korman: Three Rooms. (1 April – 24 April)
1998
• Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York. The Risk of Existence. (7 November – 30 December)
• Asheville Art Museum, Asheville. Beyond the Mountain: American Landscape Today. (March – June)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. UTZ: A Collected Exhibition. (6 February – 7 March)
• Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle. Landscapes. (8 January – 1 March)
• Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Food Matters. (10 January – 22 February)
• Apex Art, New York. Original Scale. (8 January – 7 February)
1997
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995.
Exhibition travelled: Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond (3 January – 28 February); Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock (28 March – 23 May); New York State Museum, Albany (29 May – 26 July); Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (20 June – 15 August); Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa (12 September – 7 November); The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach (9 January – 8 February 1998); Salina Art Center, Salina (6 March – 3 May 1998)
• Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York. Landscape: Seen and Unseen. (10 September 1997 – 7 February 1998)
• Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor. Feminine Image. (2 March – 25 May)
• Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C. Masterworks: New York on Paper. (7 February – 22 March)
1996
• Exhibits USA, Mid-Atlantic Arts Alliance, Kansas City. Objects of Personal Significance. Exhibition travelled.
• Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe. Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas.
• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City. Reality Bites: Realism in Contemporary Art. (4 May - 23 June)
• Marlborough Gallery, New York. On Paper. (14 February – 9 March).
Exhibition travelled: Madrid (27 March – 4 May)
1995
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Faculty Work on Paper. (27 November – 18 December)
• University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Nature Studies I. (8 September – 20 October)
• Knoedler & Company, New York. American Interiors. (9 September – 7 October)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Group Exhibition. (5 – 30 September)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1995 Whitney Biennial. (15 March - 25 June)
• Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco. Nothing Overlooked: Women painting Still Life. (5 – 28 January)
1994
• Odakyu Museum, Tokyo. New York Realism – Past and Present. (18 May – 5 June).
Exhibition travelled: Kagoshima Museum of Art, Kagoshima (1 July – 7 August); Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu (13 August – 25 September); Museum of Art, Kintetsu, Osaka (7 – 19 October); Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima (1 November – 11 December); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa (27 January – 12 March 1995)
• AHI Gallery, New York. Songs of the Earth: Twenty-Two American Painters of the Landscape. (26 October – 26 November)
• Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester. Novices Collect: Selections from the Sam and May Gruber Collection. (10 September – 4 December)
• Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase. Inspired by Nature. (25 September – 24 December)
• Wunderlich & Co., New York. An Original Idea: Realist Drawings. (5 April – 7 May)
• Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York. Drawing on Friendship: Portraits of Painters and Poets. (6 January – 1 February).
Exhibition travelled: Reynolds Gallery, Richmond (April – May)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Gallery Artists. (8 – 29 January)
1993
• The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Interior Outlook. (24 October – 5 December)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Works on Paper by Gallery Artists. (July – 18 September)
• Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica. Drawings III. (17 July – 4 September)
• Keny Galleries, Columbus. (April – May)
• Forum Gallery, New York. Artists by Artists. (4 February – 14 March)
1992
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. 44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition. (9 November – 6 December)
• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto. Beyond Realism: Image and Enigma. (14 June – 7 September) (catalogue)
1991
• Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan. American Realism and Figurative Art 1952-1990. (1 November – 23 December).
Exhibition travelled: Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama (29 January – 16 February 1992); Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima (22 February – 29 March); The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga (4 April – 17 May); Kochi Prefectural Museum of History (23 May – 21 June)
• G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York. Beyond the Picturesque: Landscape on Paper. (16 November – 21 December)
• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto. Against the Grain: Images in American Art, 1960-1990. (9 June – 9 September)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Spring/Summer Exhibition, Part One: Painters. (18 May – 22 June)
• Orlando Museum of Art, Florida. Exquisite Paintings. (16 March – 28 April)
1990
• Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The 26th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper. (18 November 1990 – 6 January 1991)
• Wilson Arts Center, Rochester. Contemporary American Still Lifes in Motion. (11 November – 16 December)
• A & A Gallery, Yale University, New Haven. New Faculty Exhibition. (3 – 14 December)
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. 42nd Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition. (12 November - 9 December)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists. (6 – 29 September)
• Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica. Black and White: Works on Paper. (July – August)
• Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston. Landscape Painting 1960–1990: The Italian Tradition in American Art. (25 May – 4 July).
Exhibition travelled: Bayly Museum of Art, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville (7 August – 30 September)
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards. (16 May – 10 June)
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. (5 March – 1 April)
• Watkins Gallery, The American University, Washington, D.C. Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence 1990 Exhibition. (12 February – 23 March)
• Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York. A Group Exhibition. (10 January – 24 February)
• Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York. Persistence of Vision. (10 January – 1 February)
1989
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. 41st Annual Academy-lnstitute Purchase Exhibition. (13 November – 10 December)
• Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles. A Decade of American Drawings1980–1989. (15 July – 26 August)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Works on Paper. (13 June – 11 August)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Paintings and Sculpture. (2 May – 3 June)
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream 1970–1985. (24 February – 2 April).
Exhibition travelled: New Orleans Museum of Fine Art (6 May – 18 June); Denver Art Museum (22 July – 10 September); Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts (20 October – 31 December)
• Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York. Group Exhibition. (14 January – 25 February)
1987
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. 39th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition. (16 November – 13 December)
• Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. In Memory of Xavier Fourcade: A Group Exhibition. (24 September – 31 October)
• Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. Paintings. (19 June – 19 September)
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. Paintings and Sculptures by Candidates for Art Awards. (2 – 28 March)
• Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. Drawings. (9 January – 7 February)
1986
• Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase. The Window in Twentieth-Century Art. (21 September 1986 – 29 June 1987).
Exhibition travelled: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (24 April – 29 June 1987)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston Collections: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. (22 October 1986 – 1 February 1987)
• Hirschl & Adler, New York. Drawings selected from The Drawing Society’s membership, spanning 400 years, by Caravaggio, Degas, Homer, Matisse, Picasso, Tiepolo, others. (12 February – 8 March)
1985
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss. (7 November 1985 – 12 January 1986).
Exhibition travelled: DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln (13 February – 3 April 1986); Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin (31 July – 21 September 1986); Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Evanston, (23 October – 14 December 1986); Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown (15 January – 8 March 1987); Akron Art Museum, Akron (9 April – 31 May 1987); Madison Art Center, Madison (26 July – 20 September 1987)
• Albany Institute of History and Art, New York. The New Response: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River. (8 November 1985 – 15 January 1986).
Exhibition travelled: The Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie (27 January – 23 March 1986); Artist’s Choice Museum, New York (19 April – 18 May 1986)
• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. Large Drawings, organized by Independent Curators, Inc. (15 January – 17 February).
Exhibition travelled: Madison Art Center, Madison (11 August – 22 September); Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina (8 November – 15 December); Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage (15 January – 1 March 1986); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (11 April – 8 May 1986)
• Brainerd Art Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam. Variation on a Theme: Figurative Painting. (18 October – 26 November).
Exhibition travelled: Community College of the Fingerlakes (13 December 1985 – 27 January 1986); University Art Gallery, State University of New York at New Paltz (2 – 27 February 1986)
• The lsetan Museum of Art, Tokyo. American Realism: The Precise Image. (25 July – 19 August).
Exhibition travelled: Diamaru Museum, Osaka (9 - 28 October); Yokohama Takashimaya, Yokohama (7 – 12 November)
1984
• Artist’s Choice Museum, New York. The First Eight Years. (17 November – 30 December)
• Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Art on Paper 1984: The 20th Exhibition. (18 November – 16 December)
• Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York. Recent American Still Life. (5 December)
1983
• Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. American Still Life: 1945-1983. (20 September – 20 November).
Exhibition travelled: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (10 December 1983 – 15 January 15 1984); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (8 April – 20 May 1984); Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase (7 June – 15 September 1984); Portland Art Museum, Portland (8 October – 8 December 1984)
• Xavier Foucade, Inc., New York. In Honor of de Kooning. (8 December 1983 – 21 January 1984) (catalogue)
• Xavier Foucade, Inc., New York. Drawings. (12 July – 16 September)
• Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. New York, New Work: Contemporary Painting – New York Galleries. (18 March – 24 April)
• The Print Club, Port of History Museum at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia. Printed by Women: A National Exhibition of Photographs and Prints. (17 February – 27 March)
1982
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Perspectives on Contemporary American realism: Works of Art on Paper from the Collection of Jalane and Richard Davidson. (17 December 1982 – 20 February 1983).
Exhibition travelled: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (1 April – 20 May 1983)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Contemporary Realist Painting: A Selection. (20 November 1982 – 27 February 1983)
• National Pinakothiki, Athens. Modern American Painting. (20 September – 7 November).
Exhibition travelled: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
• Summit Art Center, Summit. Architectural Images: Contemporary Paintings. (16 April – 23 May)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Lower Manhattan From Street to Sky. (23 February – 30 April)
• Aaron Berman Gallery, New York. Women's Art: Miles Apart. (2 – 27 February).
Exhibition travelled: Valencia Community College, Orlando (14 March – 15 April)
1981
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960. (18 September – 13 December).
Exhibition travelled: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (1 February – 28 March 1982); Oakland Museum, Oakland (6 May – 25 July 1982)
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio. Real, Really Real and Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism. (1 March – 26 April).
Exhibition travelled: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (19 May – 29 June); Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson (19 July – 26 August); Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. (24 October – 3 January 1982)
• Akron Art Museum, Akron. The Image in American Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1980. (12 September – 8 November)
• Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. The Americans: The Landscape. (4 April – 31 May)
• Hirschl & Adler, New York. The Contemporary American Landscape. (2 – 29 May)
1980
• Brooklyn Museum, New York. American Drawings in Black and White: 1970–1980. (22 November 1980 – 19 January 1981)
• Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. One Major New Work Each. (4 November – 31 December)
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. New York. (17 November – 20 December)
• Artists' Choice Museum, New York. Younger Artists, organized by the artists of Fischbach Gallery. (6 – 18 September)
• Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor. Contemporary Naturalism: Works of the 1970's. (8 June – 24 August)
• Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham. Aspects of the 70's: Directions in Realism. (17 May – 24 August)
• Henry Street Settlement House, New York. Exchanges II. (May – June)
• Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. Small Scale: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture. (12 January – 23 February)
1979
• Centro Colombo Americano, Bogotá. 16 Réalistas. (22 March – 26 April)
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. Awards Exhibition. (12 March – 8 April)
1978
• Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading. Perspective ‘78: Works by Women. (8 October – 15 November)
1977
• Kennedy Galleries, New York. Artists Salute Skowhegan. (8 – 21 December)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A View of a Decade. (10 September – 10 November)
• Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York. Works on Paper, Small Format Objects: Duchamp to Heizer. (15 February – 19 March)
• The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles. Figurative Art in New York. (3 February – 1 March)
1976
• Artists’ Choice Museum, New York. Figurative Art in New York, organized by the artists of the Green Mountain, Bowery, Prince Street and First Street Galleries. (11 December – 5 January 1977)
• The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. A Selection of American Art: The Skowhegan School 1946–1976. (16 June – 5 September).
Exhibition travelled: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville. (1 – 30 October)
1975
• DeCordova Museum, Lincoln. Candid Painting: American Genre 1950–1975. (12 October – 7 December)
• Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York. Portrait Painting 1970-1975.
• Squibb Gallery, Princeton. New Images in American Figurative Painting.
1974
• Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In Her Own Image.
Exhibition travelled: Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Queens Museum of Art, New York. New Images: Figuration in American Painting. (16 November – 29 December)
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis. Painting and Sculpture Today–1974. (22 May – 14 July)
• Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio. Collectors Gallery VIII.
• Philadelphia Civic Center Museum, Philadelphia. Woman’s Work: American Art 1974.
• The New York Cultural Center, New York. Choice Dealers–Dealer’s Choice.
1973
• Storm King Art Center, Mountainville. Painting and Sculpture 1973.
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art 1972-1973.
• Decorative Arts Center, New York. Painting in America: Yesterday and Tomorrow.
• Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Landscape.
Exhibition travelled: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha.
• Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie. New American Landscapes. (13 May – 17 June)
• The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton.
• Benson Barn Gallery, Bridgehampton.
1972
• American Federation of the Arts, New York. The Realist Revival. Exhibition travelled.
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 1972 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Art 1970-1973. (25 January – 19 March)
• Museum of Modern Art, New York. Landscape. (9 October – 19 November)
• J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit. Women in Art.
• Prince Street Gallery, New York.
1971
• Suffolk Museum, Stony Brook. The Contemporary Figure: A New Realism. (14 August – 7 October)
• DeCordova Museum, Lincoln. Landscape II. (24 January – 12 March)
LECTURES
2018
• Brooklyn Public Library, NY. The Review Panel. (Tuesday, 6 February)
2017
• PAFA Artist talk, Pennsylvania. (Wednesday, 11 October)
• UC Davis, California. Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture: Catherine Murphy in Conversation with Karen Wilkin. (Thursday, 9 March)
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• Peter Eleey, “Catherine Murphy: Lennon Weinberg,” The Brooklyn Rail (January–February 2002).
• Daniel Kunitz, “Gallery Chronicle”, The New Criterion (December 2001).
• Roberta Smith, “Catherine Murphy,” The New York Times (October 26, 2001).
• Chris Moylan, “Nostalgia for the Actual,” ArtCritical.com (October 2001).
• Mario Naves. “Up-Close Paintings Ask Us to Back Off, Just a Little,” The New York Observer (October 15, 2001).
• Alexi Worth, “Catherine Murphy,” The New Yorker (October 22, 2001).
• John Yau, “Reality to Infinity: The Drawings of Catherine Murphy.” Art on Paper (January- February 2001).
• Mila André, Houston's Texas Gallery Shows New York Painter's Work, The Big Bend Sentinel (February 11, 1999).
• Ross Neher, Blindfolding the Muse: The Plight of Painting in the Age of Conceptual Art (New York: Prenom Press, 1999).
• Susie Kalil, The Good, Long Look, Houston Press (February 25–March 3, 1999).
• Francine Prose, “A Dirty Tablecloth, Deconstructed.” Artnews (October 1999).
• Daniel Kunitz, Changing Faces, Artnews (March 1999).
• Mila André, 'Still Life' the focus of State Museum Exhibit, The Post-Star, Glens Falls, New York (May 28, 1998).
• Mila André, Catherine Murphy, The New Yorker (May 11, 1998).
• Mark Daniel Cohen, “Catherine Murphy,” Review (May 1, 1998).
• Ken Johnson, “Catherine Murphy,” The New York Times (May 15, 1998).
• Piri Halasz, State Acquires Two Art Works, The New York Times (August 11, 1998).
• Daniel M. Mendelowitz, David L. Faber, and Duane A. Wakeham, A Guide to Drawing, 7th edition (Thomson Wadsworth, 1997).
• Betsy Sussler, ed. Speak Art: the Best of Bomb Magazine’s Interviews with Artists (New York: New Art Publications/G+B Arts International, 1997).
• Margarett Loke, Realism: Catherine Murphy—It Chose Her, Artnews (February 1996).
• Reality Check, Vogue (November 1996).
• Andrea Coddington, Figuratively Speaking, Art & Auction (June 1996).
• Peter Plagens, The Impossible Exhibition, Newsweek (April 3, 1995).
• Mark Stevens, A Polite Biennial, New York Magazine (April 3, 1995).
• Peter Plagens, Beauty and Beats, Newsweek (September 18, 1995).
• David Carrier, New York Spring Exhibitions, Burlington Magazine (August 1995), pp. 572-574.
• Francine Prose, Catherine Murphy, Bomb (Fall 1995).
• Deborah Solomon, All Persuasion, No Whiners: The 1995 Whitney Biennial,The Wall Street Journal (March 24, 1995).
• Ken Johnson, Big Top Whitney, Art in America (June 1995).
• Gerrit Henry, The Figurative Field, Art in America (January 1994).
• William J. Hrushesky, Timing is Everything, The Sciences (July/August 1994).
• Mila André, Images of Nature, Scholastic Art 23, no. 3 (December 1992–January 1993).
• Mila André, Art: Catherine Murphy, The New Yorker (April 13, 1992).
• Sam Hunter and John Jacobus, Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, 3rd ed. (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992).
• Marie-France Toinet, Comment Les États-Unis ont Perdu les moyens de leur hégémonie, Le Monde Diplomatique (June 1992).
• John Yau. “Catherine Murphy, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.” Artforum (Summer 1992).
• David Bourdon..Critic's Diary: Seeing It All, or Six Weeks in Manhattan Galleries, Art in America (September 1992).
• John Gruen, Catherine Murphy, The Artist Observed: 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists (Chicago: A Cappella Books, 1991).
• John Wall, SAMA Show—A Realistic View, Altoona Mirror (June 11, 1991).
• Daniel Wheeler, Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to Present (New York: The Vendome Press, 1991).
• Margaret Moorman, Catherine Murphy, Artnews (April 1990).
• Jean Nathan, The Transom: The Chosen, The New York Observer (March 26, 1990).
• Mila André, Off the path, and well worth the trip, New York Daily News (March 23, 1990).
• Florence Pennella, Clarity, Boldness Mark Hyde Park Artist's Work, Poughkeepsie Journal (June 17, 1990).
• Ruth Bass, New York? New York, Art-Talk (Scottsdale, Arizona) (January 1990).
• Jason Edward Kaufman. Do You Remember Realism? New York City Tribune (February 19, 1990).
• John Russell, Catherine Murphy, The New York Times (November 11, 1989).
• John Arthur, Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting and the American Tradition (Boston: Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Co., 1989).
• Byron Belt, Special Exhibit of Art By Women, Springfield Sunday Republican (March 19, 1989).
• Mimi Weisbord, Artists' Choice, Panel Discussion, Women's Artists Newsletter (March 1988).
• Wendy Beckett, Contemporary Women Artists (New York: Universe, 1988).
• Alan G. Artner, Murphy's Clearly Focused Realism Makes No Excuses, Chicago Tribune (November 25, 1988).
• Nancy Grimes, Facts of Life, Artnews (December 1988).
• Barbara Hagstrom, Canvas Reality, Dutchess (Summer 1988).
• Christine Temin, Art Review: 'Boston Collects' a Fascinating Smorgasbord, The Boston Sunday Globe (October 26, 1986).
• William Zimmer, At the Neuberger, Windows Allow Artists to Share a Theme, The New York Times (October 12, 1986).
• Gail Stavitsky, Catherine Murphy, Arts Magazine (February 1986).
• Jeanne Silverthorne, Catherine Murphy, Artforum (February 1986).
• Barbara Rose, American Painting: The Twentieth Century (New York: Rizzoli, 1986).
• Jed Perl, Houses, Fields, Gardens, Hills, The New Criterion (February 1986).
• Roberta Hershenson, “The Fine, Painstaking Art of Arranging a Major Exhibition, The New York Times (November 9, 1986).
• Gerrit Henry, Catherine Murphy, Artnews (March 1986).
• Barbara Rose, Art as Risky Business, Vogue (September 1986) p. 644.
• John Russell, Catherine Murphy, The New York Times (November 29, 1985).
• Richard J. Flanson, III and Tress Ruslander Miller. The Security Pacific Collection 1970–1985: Selected Works (Los Angeles: Security Pacific, 1985).
• Edward Lucie-Smith, American Art Now (New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1985).
• Kay Larson, Catherine Murphy, New York Magazine (December 16, 1985).
• Kay Larson, The Real Things, New York Magazine (July 16, 1984).
• Hilton Kramer, The Real Things, New York Magazine (July 16, 1984).
• Vivien Raynor, Recent American Still Life, The New York Times (November 9, 1984).
• Art Show, Art: Show of Drawings at Xavier Fourcade, The New York Times (July 29, 1983).
• Mark Stevens, Revival of Realism, Newsweek (June 7, 1982).
• Susie Kalil, The American Landscape- Contemporary Interpretations,” Artweek (April 25, 1981).
• Vivien Raynor, Art: A Tranquil Show of American Landscapes, The New York Times (May 15,1981).
• Vivien Raynor, Images of New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly (November 1981).
• Donna Tennant, The Americans: The Landscape, Houston Chronicle (April 26, 1981).
• John Gruen, The Magic of the Commonplace, Quest/80 (January 1980).
• John Russell, Exchanges II, The New York Times (June 20, 1980).
• Hilton Kramer, Art: Five Gallery Realist Show, The New York Times (September 12, 1980).
• Klaus Kertess, Figuring It Out, Artforum (November 1980).
• Annette Nachumi, Exchanges II, Art/World (May 21–June 18, 1980).
• Ellen Lubell, Manhattan (and Hoboken), Soho Weekly News (May 24–30, 1979).
• Hilton Kramer, Catherine Murphy, The New York Times (May 11, 1979).
• John Gruen, Catherine Murphy: The Rise of a Cult Figure, Artnews (December 1978).
• David Bourdon, Art: Cityscapes, Architectural Digest (September 1978).
• Hilton Kramer, Soho: Figures at an Exhibition, The New York Times (December 10,1977).
• John Russell, The Potpourri at Fourcade's, The New York Times (February 25, 1977).
• Robert Taylor. Painter Catherine Murphy: A Realist with Intelligence, The Boston Globe (1976).
• Piri Halasz, Painter with a Novelist's Eye, The New York Times (January 11, 1976).
• Meryl Beveridge, Calendar Art, The Washington Star (March 7, 1976).
• Robert Garrett, Let's Look at Problem 'Realistically', Boston Herald American (May 2, 1976).
• Alicia Faxon, Painting Reality, The Real Paper (Boston) (May 23, 1976).
• Meryle Beveridge. Galleries, The Washington Post (March 2, 1976).
• Kenneth Baker, The View from Catherine Murphy's Window, The Boston Phoenix (May 11, 1976).
• Patricia Stewart, Catherine Murphy at Fourcade, Droll, Art in America (May-June 1975).
• Allen Ellenzweig, Catherine Murphy, Arts Magazine (February 1975).
• Sarah Booth Conroy, The Vice President's Residence: Eagles, Hopper and Ernst, Artnews (November 1975).
• Anonymous, Artist's brush alters 'homely' landscapes, Lexington Minute-Man (March 3, 1975).
• Mrs. Richard Steele, Murphy Still Life: Gentle, Detailed and Hard Hitting, Greensboro Daily News (October 19, 1975).
• Hilton Kramer, An Uncommon Painter of the Commonplace, The New York Times (March 9, 1975).
• Carter Ratcliff, Catherine Murphy at Fourcade Droll, Art International (April 20, 1975).
• Gerrit Henry, New York Reviews, Artnews (April 1975).
• Vivien Raynor, The Art of Survival (and Vice Versa), The New York Times (February 7, 1974).
• Catherine Murphy, Art is My Lifestyle, The Woman Artist, special issue of Art & Man 5, no. 2 (November 1974).
• Schwartz, Sanford New York Letter, Art International (May 1973).
• Canaday, John, Only Half Bad- And That's Half Good, The New York Times (February 6, 1972).
• Canaday, John Suffolk Museum Offering Display, The New York Times (September 19, 1971).
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
• Boise Art Museum, Idaho
• Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
• Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
• Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
• Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
• Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens
• Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• National Academy Museum, New York
• National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• The Newark Museum, New Jersey
• New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
• New York Public Library, Print Collection, New York
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
• Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
• University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
• Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York