Jesse Murry

Biography

Jesse Murry (1948-1993) was an American painter and poet. Born in 1948 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as a child he was forced to live with an aunt in New York, where he befriended Isabel Clark, a librarian at the White Plains library, who later adopted Murry. After graduating high school, he attended Sarah Lawrence College, where he studied art and philosophy and went on to teach at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and work as a curator of work by artists such as Howard Finster.

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