William and Alexander Clow (W & A Clow)
Active: 1910 - 1930
Function: Wood carvers
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited due to a lack of evidence about the state, medium or edition shown.
Carved The Scottish National War Memorial: St Michael & architectural carving
1927
Associated People
Collaborated with Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams
1927 (Circa)
Alice Meredith Williams modelled the archangel Michael in the shrine which was carved in wood by the Clow brothers
Trade name of Alexander Clow
A wood carving business run by the two brothers
Trade name of William Clow
A wood carving business run by the two brothers
Worked with Robert Stodart Lorimer
1910 (Circa) - 1927 (Circa)
Carved figures in the Chapel of the Knights of the Order of the Thistle at St Giles Cathedral (1910-11) and the figure of St Michael for the Scottish National War Memorial (from 1924)
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed under Wood Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1910-1911
p. 859
Listed under Wood Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1920-1921
p. 886
Listed under Wood Carvers Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1930-1931
p. 1237
Sources
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1910-1911
1910
p. 859
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1920-1921
1920
p. 860
Edinburgh & Leith Post Office Directory 1930-1931
1930
p. 1205
Listed under Sculptors
Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers
1980
Virtue and Vision Sculpture and Scotland
18 September 1991
p. 106
Citing this record
'William and Alexander Clow (W & A Clow)', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib6_1218469998, accessed 25 May 2022]