Symbolic Figures and Associated Decorative Carving 1906–1907
Phyllis Archibald (1880–1947) and Richard Ferris (1860–1915) and Alexander Nisbet Paterson (1862–1947) and J. W. Singer & Sons (founded 1847)
Phyllis Muriel Cowan Archibald Clay [also known as Phyllis Archibald Clay, and as Phyllis Archibald] was born Phyllis Muriel Cowan Archibald in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England in 1880 and studied at Glasgow School of Art from c.1901 to c.1907. She subsequently worked as a sculptor, primarily of animal subjects. She exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine arts from 1902 to 1937; Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh from 1908 to 1933; the Royal Academy in London from 1913 to 1940; and at the Society of Women Artists from 1927 to 1937. She also showed her work at the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, and London Salon in London; Leeds City Art Gallery; Aberdeen Artists' Society; the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at the Paris Salon.
Notable among her commissions were a sculptured figure representing Science and Industry for the entrance the William McGeoch & Co. Ltd. warehouse at 28 West Campbell Street, Glasgow (1905); four sculptured figures for the façade of National Bank of Scotland on St Enoch Square in Glasgow (1906-07); and figures for the choir stalls in the Congregational Church in Whiteinch, Glasgow (1910).
She married Charles Clay (1856–1941), a journalist in 1911 and subsequently exhibited under the surname Clay or Archibald Clay.
Her address was given as 20 Kew Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow in 1901 and 1909; 5 rue de Bagneux, Paris in 1909 and 1911; 1 Northcote House, 120 Heath Street, London in 1911 and 1913; 12 Wildwood Rise, London in 1914 and 1925; 1 Lungarno Guicciardini, Florence, Italy in 1925 and 1926; and Thyme Cottage Bletchingley, Surrey in 1928 and 1941. She subsequently moved to Grasmere, Westmorland where she died on 9 March 1947.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)