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Clay, Phyllis Muriel Cowan Archibald
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- Archibald, Phyllis Muriel Cowan
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1880-1947
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Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, daughter of Edmund D. Archibald, a professor mathematics who taught in the Education Department in Bengal before running a school in Tonbridge in 1881.
Phyllis studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1896 - 1906 and taught there from 1903-1905. (Her mother came from the city and was with her children in Scotland in 1901). At the GSA, her work was admired by both John James Burnet and Alexander Nisbet Paterson. While in Glasgow, she became a close friend of the journalist and writer, Catherine Carsewell.
She lived in Paris in 1909, and after her marriage to journalist Charles Clay in 1911 she was known as Phyllis Archibald Clay.
They lived in London, Bradford, then Surrey. After Charles' death, Phyllis moved to Grasmere, Westmoreland in the 1940s and died there in 1947.
She executed a number of commissions, including: Industry and Science for the warehouse of William McGeoch & Co. Ltd., Glasgow (1905); the figure sculpture (with Richard Ferris) for the exterior of the Royal (formerly National) Bank of Scotland, Glasgow (1906-7); a memorial tablet to A.H Charteris at Kirk O'Field incorporating a bust; and the figures for the choirstall in the Congregational Church, Whitchurch (1910).
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- GSA Registers
- www.scottisharchitects.org.uk
- Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951
- http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk