Phyllis Archibald

Phyllis Muriel Cowan Archibald (1880 – 9 March 1947), later Phyllis Archibald Clay, was a British sculptor. Archibald was an Associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors from 1923, and member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. Phyllis Archibald was educated at the Park School in Glasgow and then studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1903 to 1906 before spending several years studying sculpture in Paris. Before World War I began, Archibald moved to London where she established herself as a sculptor of animals and portrait figures, working in wood, stone and with a variety of metals. In 1911 Archibald married the journalist Charles Clay, 1856–1941, and the couple lived at Hampstead in London then at Bletchingley in Surrey before, as a widow, she moved to Grasmere where she died in 1947. Archibald completed a number of works for charities and churches, notably figures for choir stall of the Congregational Church at Whitchurch in 1910. At least one piece by her was included in the 1924 British Empire Exhibition in London.

Selected works TitleDate (if known)Medium (if known)'We remembered Zion'1910Marble'Jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops'