Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay

Margaret Cross Primrose Findlay (1902–1968) was a Scottish sculptor and modeller.

[1] She won the Guthrie Award in 1928 for her work The Bathers; a joint winner with William Crozier.

[2] Findlay was born at Glenlivet in Banffshire and trained at the Glasgow School of Art under Archibald Dawson between 1920 and 1925.

[3] Findlay was the modeller for the Mercat cross in Glasgow, carving the wooden animals.

[4] The Mercat Cross is considered a significant artistic triumph for Scottish women, as Findlay worked on it with Edith Burnet Hughes, the first practising female architect in Scotland.

Unicorn on top of Glasgow's Mercat Cross, modelled by Findlay