New Deal Art

Murphy, John P.: - John P. Murphy is the Philip and Lynn Straus curator of prints and drawings at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. He received his PhD in art history from Northwestern University, where he cocurated the exhibition The Left Front: Radical Art in the "Red Decade," 1929-1940 at the Block Museum. Murphy cocurated Flesh: Ivan Albright at the Art Institute of Chicago; the accompanying digital catalog received an Award of Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators. He is also a leading scholar on the Black artist Charles White.