Exhibition Images
Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy contains over 85 works of fine art and 300 pieces of ephemera. Below is a small sample of the art and photographs on view in the exhibition. For press quality images, please click on the link to the right.


Gerald Murphy
Razor, 1924

Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of the artist (1963.74.FA) © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Pablo Picasso
Woman Seated in an Armchair, 1923

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill. Photograph © 1987 The Detroit Institute of Arts © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Gerald Murphy
Wasp and Pear, 1929

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Archibald MacLeish, 1964. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY–Digital Image: © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, New York.
Pablo Picasso
The Three Graces, 1923, India ink drawing on Hôtel du Cap d’Antibes letterhead

Marina Picasso Collection, Courtesy Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland. © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Three Graces pose
(Left to right: Rue Carpenter, Sara Murphy, and Ginny Carpenter), Antibes, ca. 1923

Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Fernand Léger
Man with Hat, 1920

Baltimore Museum of Art, Gift of Cary Ross (BMA.1940.63) © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

Ernest Hemingway, Wyoming, 1932

Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Gerald Murphy on the Weatherbird, Summer 1934

Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

Fernand Léger
Portrait of Gerald Murphy from Weatherbird Portfolio, Summer 1934

Honoria Murphy Donnelly Collection. © 2007 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.

Gerald Murphy
Bibliothèque (Library), 1926–27

Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Alice Kaplan in memory of Allan S. Kaplan, B.A. 1957, and with the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., B.A. 1913 © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.


Fernand Léger
Queue des Cometes sur Fond Noir (Large Comet Tails) (front), 1930

Galerie Maeght, Paris. Photo © Galerie Maeght. © 2007 Artists Rights Socity (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.


Pablo Picasso
Segment of Pear, Wineglass and Ace of Clubs, 1914

Yale University Art Gallery, The John Hay Whitney, B.A. 1925, Hon. M.A. 1956, Collection. © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Sara and Gerald Murphy, Antibes

Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.



Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald with guinea pig, Antibes, 1926

Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.


Gerald Murphy and Pablo Picasso, La Garoupe beach, Antibes, July 1923

Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.