
Self-Portrait, oil on panel, 1984. Private collection.
David Welch

Study, Biography of Ernest Mayhew, 1958. Collection of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

Biography of Ernest Mayhew, oil on canvas, 1958. Collection of Chris and Barbara Murphy.

Claire Duys, oil on canvas, 1981. Collection of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

Everett Whiting, encaustic on paper, 1950. Private collection.

Study, Tom and Rita Benton, 1956. Collection of the Martha’s Vineyard Museum.

From left, portraits of Islanders Nelson Bryant, Bob Flanders, and Alfred Vanderhoop are on exhibit at “Stan Murphy at 100.”
David Welch
For more than fifty years, artist Stan Murphy captured the many faces and places of a changing Vineyard.