Rowley Murphy

Rowley Murphy (28 May 1891 – 1975) was a marine painter, illustrator, and designer of stained glass. He was the first Official Canadian war artist of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Biography Murphy was born in Toronto. He studied at the Toronto Technical School, the Central Ontario School of Art and Industrial Design (now OCAD University) with C.M. Manly and Robert Holmes, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia with J. Alden Weir among other teachers, He was a part-time instructor at the Ontario College of Art (1927–1930), and a full-time member of the staff from 1931 to 1962. and won a prize in the First Victory Loan Poster Competition that year.

He also did illustrations in the Saturday Evening Post, Maclean's, the Canadian Magazine, Saturday Night, as well as writing articles such as one on the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse on the Toronto Islands. Canadian War Museum, Art Gallery of Hamilton and many other institutions. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; Ontario Society of Artists; Canadian Society of Graphic Art; Canadian Society for Education Through Art; Great Lakes Historical Society (Cleveland); Model Shipbuilders' Guild (Detroit); Detroit Marine Historical Society; Niagara Historical Society; York Pioneer and Historical Society (Toronto).

Murphy died in Toronto in 1975.