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Papers of James Cosgrove

  • DC 111
  • 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

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

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

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

Christmas 2005

Design 2 Christmas Card. 'Partridge in a pear tree'. Reads on reverse with best wishes for Christmas and 2006, Jimmy".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2005

Design 1 Christmas Card. 'Dreaming of a White Christmas'. Reads on reverse with best wishes for Christmas and 2006, Jimmy".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2003

Christmas Card. 'I saw three ships sailing by'. On reverse of on reads: "To Mum and Dad With best wishes for Christmas and 2004 from James and Janet".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2001

'Hunterston Angel' Christmas Card. Reads "with best wishes for Christmas and 2002" on reverse.

Cosgrove, James

Posters

Posters from exhibitions of work of James Cosgrove, and his students. Also posters advertising bands and lectures.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1999

'Clyde Ghosts' Christmas Card. Reads on reverse "with best wishes for Christmas and Y2000. James and Janet".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1996

Christmas card. Reads inside "To Mum & Dad Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Janet an James".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1990

Two variation on the same design "Angelhead" Christmas card. Reads "Best wishes for Christmas and 1991".

Cosgrove, James

Compass 1988 Drawings for Tiles

Inscribed 'Dave Cohen - Lys Hansen/ Pete Bevan/JC'. Sketches, mostly portraits, and notes regarding exhibition. Also a design for fish plates, and biblical references.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1987

Reproduction of painting. Christmas Card. Says "with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

Cosgrove, James

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