About

Called the “Dean of Martha’s Vineyard Artists”, Stan Murphy captured the essence of a person, the luminosity of a floral arrangement, or the magnificence of the Vineyard through the seasons, for more than 50 years.
Born in 1922 in St. Paul, Minnesota, moved to Buffalo, NY in 1932 and to Baltimore in 1934 where he lived until enlisting in the service in 1942. Murphy moved with his wife and first child to Martha’s Vineyard in 1948 where he lived until his death in 2003.
He attended Loyola College in Baltimore 1940, Maryland Institute of Fine and Practical Arts; Johns Hopkins 1941; 1942-1946 …