Elected ARSA: 17 March 1920
Elected RSA: 10 February 1932
Alexander Proudfoot RSA was born in Liverpool in 1878 and, from an early age, was derermined to become a sculptor. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and in 1908 gained the Haldane Travelling Scholarship. The resulting study abroad widened his outlook and may have laid the foundations of his love for classical art, and the myths of ancient Greece.
In 1912 he returned to the Glasgow School of Art, this time as a teacher, though his time in this position was cut short by the outbreak of the war in 1914. He served in the Artists’ Rifles in France. Upon his return he found many commissions waiting for him in the demand for war memorials. His most notable memorials include the winged figure at Bearsden and the kilted soldier at Cambuslang.
