Gerald Murphy
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Gerald Clery Murphy, born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 25, 1888, was heir to the family who owned Mark Cross Company, sellers of fine leather goods. Gerald himself was president of Mark Cross Company for a time.
With his wife Sara, he moved to the French Riviera in the early 20th century, where they became the center of a large social circle of artists and writers of later fame in the 20th century. Educated at Yale, Murphy befriended a young freshman named Cole Porter and brought him into his fraternity and introduced him around to his friends propelling Porter into writing music for Yale musicals.
Gerald was also a Precisionist artist in his own right.
Gerald died October 17,1964 in East Hampton, New York. One of Murphy's daughters, Honoria Murphy Donelley participated in a retrospective of Porter's life on public television in 1992.
