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Where Magic Wears a Red Hat: The Art of Stanley Murphy
Where Magic Wears a Red Hat The Art of Stanley Murphy Author:Karal Ann Marling Stanley Murphy painted Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, across a career that spanned more than fifty years and with the exacting eye of a seasoned craftsman and the magical soul of a poet. His images are of the Vineyard's fishermen and selectmen and farmers and tribal elders; its seas and stones and fields and flowers; its fishes and cows an... more »d dogs. The Vermeer of the Vineyard, as essayist Karal Ann Marling dubs him in this collection of his portraiture, clung tenaciously to a form and place that was decidedly regional, resolutely American, and doggedly honest. Included are more than thirty-five paintings and drawings of island people.« less