Kevin D. Murphy, Professor History of Art & Architecture at Vanderbilt University: “Women Architects and Modern Architecture in Maine”

Kevin Murphy

Professor History of Art and Architecture at Vanderbilt University

This illustrated talk will focus on the women who advanced modern architecture in Maine, as designers, patrons, and developers.

Kevin Murphy is a life-long summer resident of Maine and has worked for the Maine Humanities Council, the Maine Historic Preservation Commission, and the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk. He is the Goldberg Chair in Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University and a professor of History of Art and Architecture. With a group of Vanderbilt students, he curated the exhibition “Domestic Modernism: The Art of Russell Cheney” which was held at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in 2024. Kevin has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He earned his PhD in art history at Northwestern University. This talk stems from the research which led to his book, co-authored with Mary Anne Hunting, “Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism,” which was published by Princeton University Press in 2025.