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Papers of Conrad McKenna, student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

  • DC 073
  • Collection
  • c1940s-2010s

Includes

  • a selection of Christmas cards and other ephemera collected by Conrad McKenna, a former student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, plus typed and handwritten materials used by McKenna to deliver teaching at The Glasgow School of Art
  • correspondence between Conrad McKenna and The Glasgow School of Art and members of staff, and correspondence and printed ephemera regarding The San Gimignano Summer School.

The cards and ephemera have been created by former Glasgow School of Art staff and students and friends of Conrad McKenna, including Gordon Huntly, Rosalind Bliss, Michael Moulder, Peter Sumsion, Michael Healey, Mark Severin and James Cosgrove.

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

McKenna, Conrad

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

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

Sandblasted glass panel

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

Christmas 1990

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

Cosgrove, James

Poster for Activities Week

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

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