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Autograph book which includes drawings by fellow GSA students and members of the Socialist Art Circle.

Taken in Kames.

Two certificates awarded to Alice Nisbet. Includes: Corporation of the City of Glasgow Art Galleries & Museums Drawing Competition, 1932 Clydebank Commercial Continuation Classes Certificate, 1934-5

Alice Nisbet's personal correspondence.

Packaging for "1811 TOFFEES" featuring a soldier. Designed by Lewis Ballantine.

Sketchbook belonging to Lewis Ballantyne and inscribed "Sec IV"; possibly student work. Contains pencil and ink figure and still life sketches. Includes a self portrait.

Contains Glasgow School of Art Club annual exhibition catalogues; the British School at Rome list of exhibitions of works submitted in the competitions for the Rome Scholarships of 1930 in mural painting, sculpture & engraving; and "The Vista" autumn and winter 1934: Official Organ, Glasgow School of Architecture Club incorporating the "KALEIDOSCOPE" of the Glasgow School of Art.

Sketchbook belonging to Lewis Ballantyne. Contains pencil, ink & chalk drawings of 16th-18th century male and female costumes.

Sketchbook containing ink sketches and an poem; including one sketch demonstrating "stipple" technique.

A notebook belonging to Lewis Ballantine containing pencil and ink studies and drawings demonstrating various techniques; e.g. a treatment of hair in line-work. Possibly student work.

The collection is comprised of Lewis Ballantine's own works of art such as life drawings, self portraits, design work and sketchbooks, and photographs, as well as sketchbooks and notebooks that belonged to his mother and father.

The work in the collection by Lewis Ballantine forms a valuable record of his time at the Glasgow School of Art. They show the development of his work as an artist, and provide an example of the type of work that Drawing and Painting students were required to produce during this period.

Lewis Ballantine's mother, Alice Longmuir Nisbet was herself at Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s, and was involved in the Socialist Art Circle. The sketchbooks in this collection also contain works by other members of the group such as Stuart Henderson, Jimmy Morton, James ("Jimmy") Ogilvie, W. C. Thompson and John McLean. The photographs in the collection picture Alice Longmuir Ballantine and John ("Jack") Hendry Ballantine, and Lewis Ballantine's maternal grandfather, Robert Dow Nisbet.

Collection includes:

• Notebooks belonging to Robert Dow Nisbet, 1930s
• Sketchbook belonging to Robert Dow Nisbet, 1930s
• Sketchbook of Jack Hendry Ballantine, 1930s
• Sketchbook of Alice Longmuir Nisbet, includes sketches from other members of the Socialist Art Circle, 1936
• "Dun Breatann" Sketchbook of Lewis Ballantine, 1966
• "History of Costume" Sketchbook of Lewis Ballantine, 1967
• Photographs of Robert Dow Nisbet, Alice Nisbet, c1945, Jack Hendry Ballantine c1970, Alice and Jack Ballantine, June 1995.
• Correspondence to Alice Nisbet, 4 letters, 1938-1995

Meadowside Works foreman notebook containing notes relating to various order nos.

Memo book containing technical notes & sketches (e.g. specificaitons for stern tube, wyper shafts, etc), drawing & painting notes, and gardening notes.

Sketchbook containing a watercolour of a ship, life drawings done in pencil and an ink sketch of "St Abb's Head from Eyemouth". Includes pencil sketch of John H Ballantine.

Male students standing in a line.[2 copies]

Group portrait of male and female students.[2 copies]

Collection of artwork done by Lewis Ballantine:A Sketch of head, 1966B Studies of different heads, 1965/6C Life studies of fellow students done under John Type, including study of Liz Cameron, 1966/7 [outsize]D "Dionysius At Sea", Design Class, 1966/7E Studies of different heads, Jan 1966 [outsize]F Self portrait, pastel, homework 1967/8 [outsize]G Female figures, 1966H Male figures, 1967I "Art", Art homework, 1967/8J "Vaulting", Design homework, 1966/7K Design of a moveable children's play area, Design homework, 1966L Male life study, 1967M Female life study, 1968/9N "Colour For Facade - Beakely St", Architecture Design, 1966/7 [outsize]O Female life study, modeled by Mrs Nanny [outsize]P Male life studies, 1968 [outsize]Q Male life study, 1965 and 3/4 length self portrait, May1967 [mounted together, outsize]R Female life study, 1969 [outsize]S Design Work, Sept-Dec 1966T Sketch of tree, 1967U Female life study, 1969V First Year Design Project, 1966W Christmas card, 1965X Christmas card, 1967Y Card, n.d.Z "Peer Gynt", n.d.AA Untitled, n.d.Drawings are outsize.

Collection of drawings. Some are signed by Lewis Ballantine, some are unattributed and some are signed by others. Includes: abstract works of art; "Mes Parents"; abstract female life studies; portrait of a female signed A. Roberts(on?); scene of thatched cottages signed R.D. Nisbet, 1932; portrait of R. Dow Nisbet (her father) signed ALN (Alice Nisbet); male life study; studies of windows and scenes "after" Daniel Vierge, Joseph Pannell, D.A. Gregg; sketch of a train; water colour of a canal scene signed James Morton. Some drawings are outsize.