Murray, S[teuben] Butler, Jr.

Date born:  1888

Place Born:  

Date died:  

Place died:  

Founder of the Columbia University Department of Fine Arts; Chair to 1933.  Murray taught as the head of the Department of Fine Arts at Wells College.  In 1921 Murray was named assistant professor of Fine Arts at Columbia, where he had also been lecturing in the Department of Greek and Latin.  Murray was the first professor to be called such and was given the task to organize a department of that title at Columbia. 

Home Country:  United States

Sources:   Dinsmoor, William Bell. "The Department of Fine Arts and Archaeology."  A History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1957, p. 257.

Bibliography: [dissertation:] Hellenistic Architecture in Syria.  Princeton University, 1912, published, Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1917.