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Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy
American artist (1867–1941) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (1867–1941) was an American artist.[1] She was born in Stockton, California,[1] and moved to Boston when she married her first husband, Herman Umbstaetter.[2] She drew many of the covers for The Black Cat, the magazine her husband edited from 1895 to 1912,[3] and a collection of the covers was advertised as a free gift with subscriptions to the magazine in 1905.[4] She studied with Joseph De Camp and Charles Howard Walker.[1] Her first husband died in 1913, and she married Hermann Dudley Murphy in 1916.[1]
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