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Comb Paintings

25 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, still life, portraits and abstracts.

Cosgrove, James

Comb Paintings

25 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, still life, portraits and abstracts.

Cosgrove, James

Papers of James Cosgrove

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  • Collection
  • 1968-2020

Collection includes artworks and sketchbooks made by Jimmy Cosgrove as a student at the Glasgow School of Art; while working as a Tutor and the Director of the Glasgow School of Art; and afterwards, including work relating to the House for an Art Lover, and documenting travels across Europe, North America, and Mexico.

Cosgrove, James

Designs and artworks

Designs and artworks created by James Cosgrove consisting of paintings, pen and ink drawings, prints, and poetry.

Cosgrove, James

Film accompanying the exhibition by Jimmy Cosgrove ‘Looking for Signs: Ideas and Imagined Circumstances', Studio Pavilion (House for an Art Lover), 28 Jul 2018-16 Sep 2018

Film by Callum and Fraser Rice which accompanies the exhibition by Jimmy Cosgrove ‘Looking for Signs: Ideas and Imagined Circumstances', Studio Pavilion (House for an Art Lover) 28 July - 16 September 2018, co-curated by Alison Harley, Fraser Taylor and Louise Briggs.

The exhibition explored the studio collection of Jimmy Cosgrove, and presented work spanning the early 1970s to new work created for the Studio Pavilion in 2018. Sketchbooks, travelogues, working ideas were included to show the span of work across design and the visual arts, pursued by Jimmy Cosgrove throughout his career at GSA.

Filmed in the context of the exhibition Cosgrove expands upon his ideas, working processes and contribution to design education at GSA, alongside his artistic contribution to the Scottish and Glasgow art scene of the early 1970s and into the mid 1990s, when he retired from GSA to continue working as an exhibiting artist.

A publication with invited contributions by practitioners and academics, accompanied the exhibition.

Rice, Callum

Paris and Wester Ross

Sketchbook started in Paris, includes sketches of 'One Minute Sculptures' by Erwin Wurm. Also, landscape sketches of Wester Ross.

Cosgrove, James

Morvich 1976

Sketchbook including illustrations of landscapes and abstract landscapes, mostly from Morvich and Rothesay. Including printouts from jimmycosgrove.files.wordpress.com from 2016.

Cosgrove, James

Sketchbooks

Sketchbooks from James Cosgrove's time as a student at the Glasgow School of Art, as a member of staff of the Glasgow School of Art, and as a Director of the House for an Art Lover. Also includes travel journals and sketchbooks documenting trips to Mexico, the United States of America, the Highlands of Scotland, London, Paris and Amsterdam.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2014

Design 2. Christmas Card. 'First Snow - Last Sailing'. Also includes a mock up of the card with a different painting on reverse.

Cosgrove, James

Painting

Painting including 4 standing figures, an aeroplane, and a dog. "2" written on the reverse.

Cosgrove, James

Painting

Painting including the head and torso of a figure, a seated dog, and two birds. "3" written on reverse.

Cosgrove, James

Painting

Painting including three figures. "4" written on the reverse.

Cosgrove, James

Painting

Painting including 5 figures, boats and animals. "5" written on the reverse.

Cosgrove, James

Man of Letters

Small-scale painting of the head of a man surrounded by flying birds. With the words "Tambien de Borricas ay mascaras literatos".

Cosgrove, James

Guardian

Small scale painting of head and shoulders of a person in front of hills and buildings.

Cosgrove, James

Paris 2008

Travel journal, including sketches, drawings, paintings and notes, mixed media collages, and photographs.

Cosgrove, James

Madrid and Toledo, Segovia

Travel diary entries, including collages of maps, photographs and tickets, often overpainted and illustrated. Including a study of Bristol Cathedral.

Cosgrove, James

Sketchbook 2006

Sketches of landscapes, figures and still lives. Some portraits and representations of astrological symbols. Includes design for and exhibition of the Estate House Buildings of Govan, possibly to be shown at the Centre for Art and Heritage at the HOuse for an Art Lover.

Cosgrove, James

Notebook 1990s/2006

Contains sketches, notes and stories, including writing on airports. Some pages headed 'Las Fallas, Valencia, March 2005' and 'Route 66'. Includes sketches for a landscape series.

Cosgrove, James

Royal College of Art Sketchbook

Includes drawings and landscape paintings and sketches, notes and designs of the playground, Grounds for Play, and the Art Park centre for Art and Heritage at House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Also includes a series of 14 photographic reproductions of acrylic paintings of landscapes.

Cosgrove, James

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