Mr William Grant Murray ARCA, London
Died 17 November 1950
Active: 1908 - 1943
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, principal of swansea school of art
Institutional and Business Connections
President of Swansea Art Society
17 November 1950
Listed in Art Society minutes as 'Life President'
Principal of Swansea School of Art
1908 - 1936
Murray was interviewed for the position in December 1908 along with John William Allison, A.R.C.A., Portsmouth; George Car Duxbury, A.R.C.A., Northampton; Thomas J. Jones, Burslem; and Wilson Jagger, A.R.C.A., chief assistant of the Cardiff School of Art. Murray was recommended for the position by letter from the President of the Royal College, Kensington.
Murray frankly told the interviewing Council that unless they were prepared to spend money on their art school not to appoint him. It was the most dismal art school he had seen.
He received the appointment on the first ballot. The salary was £300 a year.
Also listed as teacher of mural decoration and painting from life.
Sources
Prospectus of the Municipal School of Art and Crafts, Alexandra Road, Swansea
Session 1910-1911
1910
Prospectus of the Municipal School of Art and Crafts, Alexandra Road, Swansea.
Session 1909-1910
1909
p.4
Swansea Art Society Minutes, Accounts, Committee lists and newspaper clippings, 1948-1967
1967
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1926-1927
1926
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1927-1928
1927
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1929-1930
1929
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1930-1931
1930
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1931-1932
1931
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1932-1933
1932
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1934-1935
1934
Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus 1935-1936
1935
The School of Art and Crafts Swansea
Prospectus for Session 1915-1916
1915
The School of Art and Crafts Swansea
Prospectus for Session 1921-1922
1921
The School of Art and Crafts Swansea.
Prospectus for Session 1918-1919
1918
The School of Art and Crafts Swansea.
Prospectus for Session 1919-1920
1919
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus for Session 1923-1924
1923
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts
Prospectus for Session 1924-1925
1924
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts Prospectus 1913-1914
1913
The Swansea School of Art and Crafts Prospectus 1914-1915
1914
Citing this record
'Mr William Grant Murray ARCA, London', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib1_1213113864, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
