Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Sketchbook including abstract designs, paintings and drawings, including some landscapes and portraits, designs for Christmas card. Loose inserts including life drawings.

Cosgrove, James

Silk-screen print, textile design

DC 111/3/2
Item
1971

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Textile design, hand printed silk-screen on paper.

Cosgrove, James

Sandblasted glass panel

NMC/1886
Item
c1970s-1980s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Piece of experimental sandblasted glass made by the artist as a postgraduate student. This item was made as sample for possible commission for an architect in relation to a shop front for Leeds Building Society. The final piece was made with kiln-fired fused and lustred glass panels.

The image is one of a series based loosely on a setting sun behind a pyramidal island.

Cosgrove, James

Royal College of Art Sketchbook

DC 111/2/19
Item
c1999-2001

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

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

Queen Street Station glass mural

DC 111/7/6
Item
1972-1973

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Glass mural design for Queen Street Station, British Rail. Includes example of how it would look in-situ.

Cosgrove, James

Postgraduate Year Sketchbook

DC 111/2/2
Item
1971-1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Sketchbook labelled 'James Cosgrove' on inside of front cover. Variety of coloured and monochrome designs and illustrations. Several loose works including one Christmas card design.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for Fraser Taylor "Bodies of Work"

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

Two posters advertising exhibition 'Bodies of Work', House for an Art Lover, Glasgow. Reverse features images of exhibited works and text by Jimmy Cosgrove.

Taylor, Fraser

Poster for Activities Week

GSAA/EPH/10/170
Item
1980s

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster was used to advertise The Glasgow School Of Art's annual activities week. A number of events were organised including: films, lectures, poetry, jazz folk, drama, contests, disco, a bar in the Haldane building, dance art, a drag talent show and a snooker competition. Activities week ran annually from the 1970s until the mid 1980s. During this week, classes stopped and various events were organised instead. The poster is annotated on the reverse with "J.Cosgrove".

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a talk by Lily Greenham

GSAA/EPH/10/178
Item
Late 20th century

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster advertised a lecture given by Lily Greenham who was known for her concrete and sound poetry. The lecture was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a lecture by Richard Smith

GSAA/EPH/10/133
Item
Late 20th century

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster advertised a lecture by Richard Smith which was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art. The poster was designed and printed by Jimmy Cosgrove who worked as a senior lecturer in the textiles department at this time.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a lecture by Richard Smith

GSAA/EPH/10/158
Item
1970s

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster was used to advertise a lecture by the artist Richard Smith, who is known for his abstract colour paintings and sculptural works dealing with materials in reference to popular culture. The lecture was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art as part of the school's annual activities week in the early 1970s. The poster was designed and printed by Jimmy Cosgrove who worked as the head of textiles at The Glasgow School Of Art from 1973 to 1982.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a lecture by Lily Greenham

GSAA/EPH/10/148
Item
Late 20th century

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster advertised a lecture given by Lily Greenham who was known for her concrete and sound poetry. The lecture was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a lecture by Ian Breakwell entitled 'Continuous Diary'

GSAA/EPH/10/163
Item
[1967]

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster advertised a lecture given by the artist Ian Breakwell that was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art. Breakwell is well known for working in a variety of mediums including print, installation, film and photography, however he is best known for making work based around his diary entries. He is also associated with The Artist Placement Group, an organisation set up in 1966 to bring art practice into hospitals and prisons. This particular lecture focused on work made between 1965 and 1967. The reverse of the poster is annotated with "J.Cosgrove".

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a lecture by Brian Griffiths

GSAA/EPH/10/157
Item
[Nov 1972]

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster advertised a lecture by economist Brian Griffiths which was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art in December 1972. At this time, Griffiths worked as lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, however he would later become advisor to Baroness Thatcher during her time as Prime Minister. He then became the Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs. This lecture focused on the topic of Christianity, capitalism and revolution and was organised by David Dobson who was head of the Sculpture department at The Glasgow School Of Art in 1972.

Cosgrove, James

Mural design, Fort William

DC 111/7/5
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design of two panels. Yellow, red, pink, and black and white circles and squares. Reverse has notes about design.

Cosgrove, James

Mural design

DC 111/7/4
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design of yellow, red, and black and white circles and squares. Reverse has some simple illustrations.

Cosgrove, James

Morvich 1976

DC 111/2/4
Item
1976-2016

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

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

Cosgrove, James

Jimmy Cosgrove Recent Work Exhibition

DC 111/4/4
Item
05 Dec 1980-30 Dec 1980

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Poster for the exhibition of recent work by Jimmy Cosgrove at Glasgow Print Studio Gallery.

Cosgrove, James

Glasgow School of Art Print Textiles Exhibition

DC 111/4/3
Item
12 Oct 1976-29 Oct 1976

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Poster for the exhibition of Print Textiles for the 1974 - 1976 class. Undercroft Gallery, Manchester Polytechnic.

Cosgrove, James

Geborne Again

DC 111/4/5
Item
1980

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Reproduction of Geborne Again by Jimmy Cosgrove.

Cosgrove, James

Dissertation project

DC 111/3/8
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Gouache textile design

Cosgrove, James

Dissertation project

DC 111/3/7
Item
1970-1971

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

James Cosgrove's Glasgow School of Art DA dissertation.

Square white/grey hardcover book with hand-printed silk-screens on paper and acetate. Images and poetry inside. Entitled 'Relationships. Thoughts and Things.'

Cosgrove, James

Design, two hexagons and a circle

DC 111/3/6
Item
1969

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design with pattern created with two hexagons and a circle. Pen and ink on tracing paper. Mounted on paper.

Cosgrove, James

Design, twelve squares

DC 111/3/4
Item
1970

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design with twelve squares. Felt pen and printer's ink on paper.

Cosgrove, James

Design, nine squares

DC 111/3/3
Item
1970

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design with nine squares. Procion, pen and printer's ink on paper.

Cosgrove, James

Design, nine squares

DC 111/3/5
Item
1970

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design with nine squares. Pen, pencil and printer's ink on paper.

Cosgrove, James

Design for stained glass commission, Leeds Permanent Building Society

DC 111/7/2
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design for stained glass commission for the Glenrothes branch.

Cosgrove, James

Design for stained glass commission, Leeds Permanent Building Society

DC 111/7/3
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design for stained glass commission for the Glenrothes branch.

Cosgrove, James

Design for public art commission, East Kilbride

DC 111/7/1
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design for stained glass public art commission.

Cosgrove, James

Cosgrove 3rd Textiles

DC 111/2/1
Item
Oct 1969

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Glasgow School of art Third Year Printed Textiles sketchbook labelled 'Botanic Gardens 1969'. Abstract designs.

Cosgrove, James

Compass 1988 Drawings for Tiles

DC 111/2/9
Item
Oct 1988

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

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

Class of 82