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From Caveman to Caveman. Oil paintings like photographs of the future. Portraits on commission. Illustrations with Imagination.
Murphy Artistic Elliott
Born in 1952 on the outskirts of Dover, Delaware. At age five was given up to foster care, along with his older sister and two younger brothers. Murphy started school in the second grade and was considered gifted, he excelled in mathematics. At age eight was put into a private school, Elizabeth W. Murphy School. This was also the year he discovered a talent for drawing. He had drawn a picture of a rotary telephone, and upon returning from recess someone had taken it. His teacher felt bad, and suggested that Murphy draw something on the chalkboard for Christmas. It turned out to be a twelve foot long mural of the three wise men arriving at Bethlehem on camels. The entire school of three thousand toured the class room to see his drawing. An obsession for drawing had begun.
When Murphy was ten President Kennedy set the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning safely before the end of the decade. Murphy wrote to fifty two states letters, one for each state capital, chamber of commerce asking one question. How were they involved in the space race? The response was overwhelming. Receiving a stack of information that was almost as tall as he was. Not only were all fifty two states involved in the moon mission , many countries around the world were participating in this great Co-operation.
