Seamus Murphy —Peter Murray considers the achievements of Cork-born sculptor Seamus Murphy on the centenary of his birth
From the mid-1940s, until his death in 1975, the stonecarver, letterer and sculpture portraitist Seamus Murphy (1907–1975) held a unique position in the Irish art world (Fig 2). Apart from just one year’s study in Paris, in 1932, Murphy, who began his career as an apprentice stonecarver, spent his entire life in Cork, but over four decades he transformed himself effectively into an artist of State
