Kathleen Evelyn Crosbie McNeil

Other names: née Kennedy

Born 8 February 1894
Died 1968

Active: 1918 - 1944

Country of birth and death: Scotland

Sculptor

Born at Kelvinside, Glasgow. She may have attended Mrs Bogle's boarding school at 29 and 31 St Matthew's Parade, Northampton around 1911. Kathleen went on to study sculpture at Glasgow School of Art. In 1919 she married John McNeil, a mechanical engineer and they settled at Barnaigh House, Kennishead, Glasgow.

McNeil was a ‘lively, well educated, [and] artistic’ woman with an interest in history, period furniture, and vernacular architecture. She became friends with Ingeborg Neufeld and commissioned the younger artist to make a sculpture for her garden at Barnaigh House. This work is now lost but Neufeld (now King) retains a bronze cast of a naturalistically modelled horse, titled 'Peggy M’Neil', a portrait of one of the horses kept by the McNeil family at Kennishead and which she exhibited in 1944.

Information from Jane Eckett, 'Modernist Sculpture in Australia: Group of Four, Centre Five and the Europeans', doctoral thesis, University of Melbourne, begun 2009.

Citing this record

'Kathleen Evelyn Crosbie McNeil', 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/person.php?id=ann_1301398615, accessed 27 Jan 2021]