Catherine Murphy: born Cambridge Massachusetts in 1946
Pratt Institute 1967
Skowhegan School of Painting 1966
National Endowment for the Arts 1979&1989
Guggenheim Foundation 1982
Senior Critic at Yale University

Public Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, ILL
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Newark Museum, NJ
New York Public Library, Print Collection, NY
Phillips collection, Washington, DC
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY