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...Airplane Linen. By then, Léger had pronounced Murphy the only American painter in Paris. Murphy'a 18-ft.-high Boatdeck, Cunarder, an immense evocation of exile in hard-edge boldness, caused a row at the 1924 Salon des Indépendants because it took up almost all the space that U.S. artists were allotted. Murphy worked tirelessly in a technique as meticulous as his detail. He used airplane linen, painstakingly mocked up his drawing before he picked up a brush. A cigar-box lid in Cocktail (1928), which splays bartenders' tools flat against the picture plane...
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