Arthur Franklyn MUSGRAVE

Arthur Franklyn MUSGRAVE
'Mitrat'
1878
1969

Born in Brighton, the artist was a pupil at the FORBES SCHOOL (c1906-10), acquiring the affectionate nickname of 'Mitrat' from the circle of artists around 'Fryn' JESSE and 'Mibs' (Elizabeth FORBES) who produced the Paper Chase local magazine. Musgrave contributed 'The Diary of an Art Student' to the 1908 Paper Chase.

Though it is known that he exhibited at NAG, there are no sales recorded for him in the period. British sources report his home as being in Fittleworth, Sussex. He also studied in Munich, and exhibited at the RA in 1911. By 1916 he had moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he remained, and he also worked at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where his summer home was located at Truro (a tiny rural village).

media

Painter of portraits, landscape, wildlife, and murals

exhibitions

RA 1911

references

AskART (D W Tuthill, grandson of the artist)

Green (2002) Posing the Model

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn & West Cornwall pp86-88 'The Paper Chase'

Johnson & Greutzner

Mallett's Index

Paper Chase Vol 1

Tovey, David (2022) Lamorna - An Artistic, Social and Literary History - Volume I - Pre-1920, Wilson Books

Who Was Who in American Art

Wood Victorian Painters;