Keith Murray
Born 1892
Died 1981
Active: 1930 - 1959
Country of birth and death: New Zealand
Sculptor
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate of Royal Society of Arts
1938
Awarded the title of 'Royal Designer for Industry' (for glass and pottery).
Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1930 (Circa) - 1959 (Circa)
Produced animal figures for Wedgwood. See Wedgwood Photograph Albums 'Queensware Record' which includes photographs of the following work: 'Monkey Group' 3458' (undated) attributed to Murray.
Primarily a designer/modeller of jugs, vases etc. See a number of photographs of works by Murray in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive including: an undated advert 'Designs by Keith Murray. Wedgwood' which pictures vases, jugs, boxes, ash trays etc. (reference no. WADV91); a photograph in the Harold White Photograph Album no. 4, p. 35, of vases and bowls etc. (no. HWPAB4/35), dated 1940-1949; a photograph of Murray in the studio c. 1930-1939 (no. PORW38). Photographs of works, advertising material, letters and other sources in this archive for Murray date from c. 1930 to the late 1950s. There are no records of animal figures in the digital archive.
Sources
The Royal Society of Arts, 1754-1954, 1954
1954
p. 287.
The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See various photographs of works, advertising material, letters and other sources in this archive dating from c. 1930 to the late 1950s.
Wedgwood Photograph Albums 'Queensware Record', c. 1940-1950
Unpaged. This album contains photographs of a 'Monkey Group' by Murray.
Citing this record
'Keith Murray', 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=msib4_1237294351, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
