James (Jim) Murphy
American, B. 1943
By Sean Murphy (The Artist’s Son)
My father Jim was born in Kansas in 1943. His family lineage is of Irish and English decent. The oldest of six siblings, Jim grew up in what could be described as a typical Catholic, middle class family, in Kansas City, Missouri. His mother was a school teacher and full time homemaker. His father served in the Pacific theater during the second world war and later in life, managed restaurants and hotels. Jim's youth was fairly typical for a Midwestern boy of the...more
