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The Glasgow School of Art Series Design (arts)
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Illustrations and designs

A variety of illustrations and designs completed by Mary Ramsay. Most of these items are undated, though one bears a label referring to Ramsay's studies during the 1915-1916 session at The Glasgow School of Art. These items include pencil and paint on paper.

Ramsay, Mary

Correspondence

A variety of letter received by Archibald Haswell Miller. One of this letters dates to his time as a student at the Glasgow School of Art, whereas the others date to his time as a lecturer at the same institution.

Catterns, Edward Railton

Ephemera

A variety of ephemera primarily dating to the days of Archibald Haswell Miller as a student at The Glasgow School of Art.

Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts

Publications

Five magazines produced by the students and staff of the Department of Printed Textiles containing illustrations and photographs of the students' work.

The Glasgow School of Art

Artworks

Artworks, primarily on paper.

Includes GSA student work such as sketchbooks and loose sketches, collages and textile samples.

Fraser Taylor student sketches and collages for various student projects experimenting with media. Collages of preparatory designs for printed textiles of various media including layers of tissue papers, glassine paper, foam pieces, tracing paper with crayon, inks, dyes and mono print. Textile samples of figure studies with gouache paint, ink and collage areas in various medium. Designs for printed textiles in acrylic and pen on paper with areas of collage. Sketches of landscape and figure studies, pencil, charcoal, chalk, crayon, glue, acrylic and watercolour on paper. With hand written titles, dates and notes. 44 sheets various dimensions varying from 296 x 210 mm to 740 x 555 mm. Some mounted on card. The items are very fragile with
some collage elements, flaking of the friable media such as gouache and acrylic paints.

Some of this material was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Paper conservation took place in 2018. Textile conservation was completed in 2019.

Taylor, Fraser

Associated Works

This collection includes works by a number of artists, designers and architects associated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, his sister-in-law Frances Macdonald MacNair and his sister-in-law's husband Herbert MacNair. These works include textiles, designs, and four volumes of a Glasgow School of Art student publication called The Magazine, as well as several individual watercolours now separated from the publication. The collection also includes a number of models for proposed architectural schemes by Mackintosh.

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Reproduction Furniture

A series of facsimile armchairs were commissioned by GSA between 2003 and 2005 to replace the original armchairs (from 1904 and 1906) that remained in situ and in daily use within the Director's Room and Board Room of Glasgow School of Art.

Bruce Hamilton Furniture Makers