PHYLLIS MURIEL COWAN ARCHIBALD CLAY (1880-1947, UK)
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African American expressionist portrait. Oil on masonite. 24 x 11 1/2 in. Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. She was the daughter of Edmund D. Archibald (born c.1851 in Hampstead) a professor mathematics who taught in the Education Department in Bengal before 1881 and was running a school in Tonbridge that year. Phyllis studied at Glasgow School of Art (her mother came from there and was with her children in Scotland in 1901). On 18 December 1911 Phyllis married Charles Clay, journalist c.1856-1941. They lived in Surrey where he died, leaving her £7397 11s. 4d. 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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PHYLLIS MURIEL COWAN ARCHIBALD CLAY (1880-1947, UK)
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