Folder GSAA/DIR/9/64 - Empire Exhibition Correspondence

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GSAA/DIR/9/64

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Empire Exhibition Correspondence

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  • Mar 1938-Apr 1938 (Creation)

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Includes correspondence with: Messrs Henderson & Bisset, and a number of other Scottish Businesses, about sourcing Scottish articles of good design for the Palace of Industry at the Exhibition; Messrs Maclehose & Co Ltd about books on loan for the Exhibition; Miss Peggy Hodge, about decorations for the exterior of the Exhibition Concert Hall and sourcing students to volunteer to help; J Dunlop Anderson, and Basil Spence, about the decoration on the walls of the Educational Section; G & G Ponton Ltd, and a number of other Printing Firms, about the group of Printing to be shown in the stand of the Scottish Committee of the Council of Art & Industry; D M Sutherland and Francis Cooper about the display of Glasgow School of Art work as part of the Educational Section; A Lindsay, Director of Beardmore & Co Ltd, about the decoration of their Pavilion at the Exhibition; James Guthrie, Scottish Artist, about lending specimens for the Printing Exhibit; D M Sutherland about a painting of his for the Exhibition, and about the Educational Section; Professor Randolf Schwabe, about arranging the Art Section of the Empire Exhibition, that is to include a small panel of Mackintosh Drawings; William Davidson, about Mackintosh's Drawing of Scotland Street School that is to be exhibited; William Collins, about supplying books to the Empire Exhibition; Major E A Longden, about some names for the private view of the Art at the Exhibition; list of Crafts Exhibits for the Empire Exhibition.

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This material has been appraised in line with Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections standard procedures.

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William O Hutchison was a selector for the Scottish Committee of the Council for Art & Industry in connection with a stand at the Empire Exhibition of examples of good Scottish Design, including Printing.

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