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Bone, Phyllis Mary, RSA

1894 – 1972

Phyllis Mary Bone trained at the Edinburgh School of Art (the former Trustees' Academy) on the Mound in Edinburgh, and then at the new Edinburgh College of Art from 1912 to 1918. She proceeded to study in Paris under the animal sculptor Navellier and spent six months in Italy. Upon her return to Edinburgh in 1919 she worked as an assistant to Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson ARSA. She specialised in animal sculpture and was commissioned to produce animal sculptures for the Scottish National War Memorial and for the Ecology Building at the University of Edinburgh. She exhibited at the RSA from1915 until 1972 and also exhibited in Paris. In addition to her sculptures she also produced drawings of animals, several being published in her booklet, 'Deer Talk' (1962). For the last twenty-three years of her life she resided at Kirkcudbright. She became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1939 and the first woman Academician in 1944. Bone was a cousin of the artist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell RSA.



An image from the RSA collection.