There was a fire in the west wing of the Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on the 23rd May 2014, which unfortunately affected The Glasgow School of Art's archives and collections.
Since this date, staff have worked to assess and stabilise affected material. The majority of our paper archives and artworks on paper (including 100 works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh) were unharmed by the fire. A small percentage of the archives suffered water damage but these items were either air dried or frozen and are now stabilised and conserved. Our textile collections suffered water damage, but these textiles were also air dried and stabilised and have now been conserved. Our plaster casts suffered smoke damage and some water damage.
Sadly some items from the School's archives and collections were lost. Almost all of the oil paintings on canvas in the School's collection were stored above the Library and were therefore sadly destroyed. Items from our Mackintosh furniture collection which were in use in the Mackintosh Library or held in the store above this space were either destroyed or very badly damaged by the fire, however, fragments of furniture and fittings were recovered from the Mackintosh Library as a result of forensic archaeology work.
Many of our most important Mackintosh pieces were on display in a Furniture Gallery and in the School’s Mackintosh Room in the east wing of the building and were therefore unaffected by the fire.
We have decided to include descriptions and images of material lost in the fire on our online catalogue. Although the items no longer exist, their descriptions still provide valuable contextual information for researchers, such as titles, dates, custodial histories, related material etc. The images are also a useful resource, providing vital surrogates for users.
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Lampshade for Library, Glasgow School of Art
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Designed as individual lights within the Library at Glasgow School of Art. Very similar in design to the thirteen lampshades which make up the central light fitting in the Library.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Lampshade for Library, Glasgow School of Art
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Designed as individual lights within the Library at Glasgow School of Art. Very similar in design to the thirteen lampshades which make up the central light fitting in the Library.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Corfe Castle, viewed from Corfe Castle Parish Church tower. Verso: To my friends Mary and Allan D. Mainds/ Corfe Castle Dorset/ A Souvenir from the Artists/ 1919.
Newbery, Francis Henry
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. The Ferry on the River Blyth, Walberswick, Suffolk. The subject is the ferry at Walberswick in Suffolk where Newbery and his family spent many holidays.
Newbery, Francis Henry
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of full-length female nude.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
Waterfront Building, Walberswick, Suffolk
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Possibly the exterior of Newbery 's studio in Walberswick.
Newbery, Francis Henry
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of a female nude, with wrap and headscarf.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
Portrait of Alexander McGibbon
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of Glasgow architect Alexander McGibbon. Inscribed above: Alexander McGibbon A.R.I.B.A.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of nude model, back view.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of seated nude (female) model.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of washerwoman. Verso: Presented to the Glasgow School of Art by Prof. Maurice Greiffenhagen LLD/3rd, April 1930.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. An allegorical study.
Bell, Robert Anning
Portrait of Marion Osborne Blythe (nee Dempster)
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of a lady.
Mainds, Allan Douglass
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of trees.
Laurie, John
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Landscape study of woods in Milngavie, near Glasgow. Verso: 'Edge of a wood, Milngavie', John Laurie, 4 Somerset Place Mews Glasgow G3.
Laurie, John
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Decorative panel with lettering: Script reads: God Bless The Men That Build The Ship/Tis Not For Wages/Only That They/Labour But To Save/Men's Lives.'.
Craig, Ailsa
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Landscape study.
Pringle, John Quinton
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of a lady.
Wilson, David Forrester
Portrait of a man in a frock coat
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Male portrait.
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Landscape, with farm buildings to the foreground.
Brown, Alan
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of highland landscape.
Paterson, George William Lennox
Portrait of Sir Hector Clare Cameron
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of Sir Hector Clare Cameron (1843-1928), Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Glasgow. This is a study of the finished work held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study after Titian's 'The Fall of Man', c1570. The Titian original is held in the Prado collection, Madrid.
McGlashan, Archibald A
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of architect, Alexander Adam.
Gallacher, William
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of sailor.
Ewart, David Shanks
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Landscape study of sand dunes.
Cadenhead, James
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. One-eyed female figure in long green coat, set against landscape.
Wilson, Helen F
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Abstract design.
Low, Bet
Plafond du Grand Escalier du Chateau de Versailles
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Fleming, Ian
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Strang, William
Thought to have been lost in the fire in the Mackintosh Building, 23rd May 2014.
Forsyth, Gordon M
Thought to have been lost in the fire in the Mackintosh Building, 23rd May 2014.
Macbeth, Ann
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. For the Luncheon Room, Buchanan Street Tearooms, Glasgow.
Walton, George Henry
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. A number of examples of this design exist, and variations on it, in private collections.
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Painted white wood with inlaid metals and wood.
Birch & Co
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Wood, brown stain with rush seat. The design appears in the Birch & Co Design Ledger No.1906, dated Oct 1901. This firm produced several very Glasgow Style pieces (George Walton also worked for them).
Birch & Co
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Martin, William
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Ebonised wood with heart and square motifs.
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Carved wood, probably Victorian.
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Composition of embroidered fruit and flowers (as triptych). In original frame. Design made for Longcroft, Helensburgh.
Hamilton, Margaret
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait or artist; standing and wearing waistcoat. This painting was almost certainly exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Art in 1964.
Mackintosh, John
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Beach and rocks in foreground; land on left, mid-distance.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Mountain scene.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Summer landscape, with trees and water to foreground.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Winter landscape with cottage under snow. Location: Pinwherry, Ayrshire.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Seascape with rocks in foreground, land in mid-ground.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of cliff face.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Female portrait, possibly the artist's sister Violet.
Anderson, Daisy McGlashan