Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter Murphy (1867–1941) was an American artist.

[1] She was born in Stockton, California,[2] and moved to Boston when she married her first husband, Herman Umbstaetter.

[3] She drew many of the covers for The Black Cat, the magazine her husband edited from 1895 to 1912,[4] and a collection of the covers was advertised as a free gift with subscriptions to the magazine in 1905.

[5] She studied with Joseph De Camp and Charles Howard Walker.

[2] Her first husband died in 1913, and she married Hermann Dudley Murphy in 1916.