Material related to Hugh Biggar
- DC 097/3
- Series
- 1886
Includes a Haldane medal awarded to Hugh Biggar.
Not available / given
Material related to Hugh Biggar
Includes a Haldane medal awarded to Hugh Biggar.
Not available / given
Papers of Thomas C Simmonds, Headmaster of Glasgow School of Art, 1881-1885
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Includes:
All the correspondence listed here occurred after Simmonds left the Glasgow School of Art. The major correspondent is the School Secretary, Edward Catterns, and all the letters from him to Simmonds are the draft or copy letters kept by the school office. Other correspondence includes the letters between Catterns and the Derby School of Art regarding the situation with Simmonds.
Simmonds, Thomas Charles
Part of Mary Ramsay artworks
A variety of architectural drawings and studies completed by Mary Ramsay. These items are dated to her time as a student at The Glasgow School of Art, between the years 1915-1917, and bear labels details her teachers from this period. Most items are pencil on paper, with a few further studies in paint.
Ramsay, Mary
Part of Mary Ramsay artworks
A variety of life drawings and portraits completed by Mary Ramsay. Some of these items are dated to her time as a student at The Glasgow School of Art. Most items are pencil on paper, with a few further studies in paint.
This series includes one item by Jessie Wilson, another student of The Glasgow School of Art, with whom Mary Ramsay and Margaret Macdonald started a pottery decorating business at The Studio, Strathyre, in 1926.
Ramsay, Mary
Part of Mary Ramsay artworks
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
Material relating to designs for Rolls of Honour
Part of Papers of Dorothy Doddrell
Variety of works created by Dorothy Doddrell relating to the Rolls of Honour of The Glasgow School of Art, Busby Parish Church, and Stevenson Memorial Church.
Doddrell, Dorothy Maria F
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
Material featuring designs by Haswell Miller
A variety of designs completed by Archibald Haswell Miller, including book covers, commercial artworks, and religious designs. Some of these items are dated to his time as a lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art.
Miller, Archibald E Haswell
Includes:
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Architectural student work by Kenneth Murray Fraser
Part of Material relating to former GSA student, Kenneth Murray Fraser
Contains architectural work completed by Kenneth Murray Fraser while a student at the Glasgow School of Art.
Fraser, Kenneth Murray
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
Student life drawings by Kenneth Murray Fraser
Part of Material relating to former GSA student, Kenneth Murray Fraser
Contains life drawings by Kenneth Murray Fraser, completed during High School and at the Glasgow School of Art.
Fraser, Kenneth Murray
Part of Papers and textiles of Sheena Reid (nee Robertson), student at The Glasgow School of Art, 1950s
A number of photographs featuring Sheena Reid and other GSA students.
Not available / given
Material created for Project 3, First Year which relates to the history and design of The Glasgow School of Art building. Six Drawing and presentation sheets of architectural floor plans, elevations, and details.
Platt, Christopher
Part of GSA Undergraduate Fashion Show
Includes:
MacGowan, Robert
Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth
Taylor, Fraser
Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth
5 printed textiles, including printed lengths, a square scarf and a sample fashion textile.
Taylor, Fraser
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
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
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
A number of the GSA fashion shows were filmed and some of these films are held by GSA Archives and Collections, namely the films for 1978, 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1986. These show models on the stage plus in some cases backstage footage and/or stills, and the audience arriving at the venue. For four of the films held by GSA Archives and Collections, the soundtracks have been incorporated at the editing stage and reflect the songs played at the show.
Carruthers, Colin
Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth
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
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
Publications Featuring Work by George and/or Cordelia Oliver
A collection of publications featuring work by George or Cordelia Oliver, some of which is collaborative. Includes: art catalogues and magazines.
Oliver, George
Collected Publications of Interest
Cordelia Oliver's collection of publications that were of interest to her. They do not contain any of her own work. Includes: various magazines and exhibition catalogues.
*Not available / given
Papers of Francis H Newbery, Director of Glasgow School of Art, 1885-1918
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Includes:
Newbery, Francis Henry
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
GSA-related exhibition catalogues, including those for the following exhibitions: Ancient & Modern Embroidery & Needlecraft, 1916 (2 copies); The Page Right Printed, An Exhibition of the Work of the Private Presses from William Morris to the Present Day, May 1973; Come All Ye: Exhibition of Broadsides, Broadsheets, Chapbooks, Songsheets, Poem Cards, Private Press Ephemera and Street Literature, Feb 1975; Work by GSA Design School staff, Mar/Apr 1982; Tenth Degree: Exhibition of work by final year and postgraduate students in Fine Art, 1988; Art at Heart: Work by students at schools for the blind in Japan 1950-1988, Oct 1989; Hannah Frew Paterson, Embroiderer, 1990 (ISBN 0901904147); Berlin/Glasgow | Glasgow/Berlin, 1995/6 (2 copies);Glasgow School of Art Design Staff, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, USA, 13th-24th Feb 1996; Lines of Continuity, 2002 (ISBN 0901904430)(2 copies).
*Not available / given
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
Glasgow School of Art Related Material
Student work by George and Cordelia Oliver relating to their time at The Glasgow School of Art. Also includes collected material for the 2001 exhibition 'Art Booms with the Guns: the War Years at The Glasgow School of Art.'
Oliver, George
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Minutes of the Committee of Management, 1854-1892, and of the Board of Governors, 1892-2002. The minute books also contain minutes and some correspondence of a large number of committees of the Board of Governors including: the Chairman’s Committee; Finance Committee; Staff and School Committee (Human Resources Committee); Estates Committee; Audit Committee; Business Committee and a number of sub committees that change from year to year. Appendices: The minute books also contain appendices or supporting documents and papers including correspondence, reports, financial statements and press clippings. Until 1995 appendices tend to be stored pasted or interleaved within the minutes however from 1995-2002 surviving appendices have been collected and stored in a separate folder(s), labelled accordingly.
From 2003 onwards Board of Governors meeting papers, or appendices, are stored within the minute books. Minutes of Board of Governors meetings from 2003 onwards will be found amongst the papers of the next Board meeting, during which they were approved e.g. Minutes for the Board meeting of 03 Dec 2002 and found within the papers for the meeting of 06 Feb 2003.
Annual Reports and Accounts, Strategic plans, Press Clippings, and Annual Reports to Senate have been removed from the meeting papers of 2003-2014. Annual Reports and Accounts can be found at GSAA/GOV/1; Strategic plans at GSAA/GOV/8/1; Press Clippings at GSAA/NEW; and Annual Reports to Senate at GSAA/AC.
Format: From 1845-March 1909 minutes are handwritten in bound volumes. From May 1909-Jun 1955 minutes are typed in bound volumes (with the exception of GOV/2/16 which is loose). Thereafter minutes are typed and loose in folders.
The minutes up to 2002 have separate index books, and many are indexed by committee and/or subjects. From Oct 2014 Board of Governors minutes and papers are stored digitally as PDF files.
Data protection and sensitivity: Minutes over 30 years old are available for public consultation. Permission from the Board of Governors is needed for access to those which are less than 30 years old. However, minutes from 2012 onwards are published online at: http://www.gsa.ac.uk/about-gsa/key-information/governance/board-agendas,-papers-and-minutes/ please note, these may be redacted. Records containing sensitive information about individuals have been collected into separate folders that will be closed for 75 years, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Volumes are as follows:
GOV/2/1: Apr 1854-Mar 1882
GOV/2/2: Apr 1882-Mar 1890
GOV/2/3: Apr 1890-Mar 1895
GOV/2/4: Mar 1895-Jun 1901
GOV/2/5: Aug 1901-Jun 1907
GOV/2/6: Sep 1907-Mar 1909
GOV/2/7: May 1909-Jun 1911
GOV/2/8: Aug 1911-Mar 1913
GOV/2/9: Mar 1913-Jun 1914
GOV/2/10: Jun 1914-Jul 1916
GOV/2/11: Oct 1916-Jun 1920
GOV/2/12: Jul 1920-Dec 1924
GOV/2/13: Jan 1925-Dec 1927
GOV/2/14: Jan 1928-Dec 1929
GOV/2/15: Jan 1930-Aug 1931
GOV/2/16: Oct 1931-May 1934
GOV/2/17: Oct 1934-Jun 1937
GOV/2/18: Aug 1937-Jul 1945
GOV/2/19: Sep 1945-Jul 1949
GOV/2/20: Aug 1949-Jul 1952
GOV/2/21: Sep 1952-Jun 1955
GOV/2/22: Sep 1955-Jun 1956
GOV/2/23: Jun 1956-Jan 1958
GOV/2/24: Feb 1958-May 1959
GOV/2/25: Aug 1959-Jan 1962
GOV/2/26: Feb 1962-Dec 1963
GOV/2/27: Jan 1964-Jun 1966
GOV/2/28: Sep 1966-Jul 1968
GOV/2/29: Oct 1968-Nov 1969
GOV/2/30: Jan 1970-Dec 1970
GOV/2/31: Dec 1970- Dec 1971
GOV/2/32: 1972
GOV/2/33: 1973
GOV/2/34: 1974
GOV/2/35: 1975
GOV/2/36: 1976
GOV/2/37: 1977
GOV/2/38: 1978
GOV/2/39: 1979
GOV/2/40: 1980
GOV/2/41: 1981
GOV/2/42: 1982
GOV/2/43: 1983
GOV/2/44: 1984
GOV/2/45: 1985
GOV/2/46: 1986
GOV/2/47: 1987
GOV/2/48: 1988
GOV/2/49: 1989
GOV/2/50: 1990
GOV/2/51: 1991
GOV/2/52: 1992
GOV/2/53: 1993
GOV/2/54: 1994
GOV/2/55: 1995
GOV/2/56: 1996
GOV/2/57: 1997
GOV/2/58: 1998
GOV/2/59: 1999
GOV/2/60: 2000
GOV/2/61: 2001
GOV/2/62: 2002
GOV/2/63: 2003
GOV/2/64: 2004
GOV/2/65: 2005
GOV/2/66: 2006
GOV/2/67: 2007
GOV/2/68: 2008
GOV/2/69: 2009
GOV/2/70: 2010
GOV/2/71: 2011
GOV/2/72: 2012
GOV/2/73: 2013
GOV/2/74: 2014 (Feb-Jun are paper records, Oct-Dec are digital files)
GOV/2/75: 2015 (digital)
GOV/2/76: 2016 (digital)
GOV/2/77: 2017 (digital)
The Glasgow School of Art
Part of Papers of Conrad McKenna, student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Greetings cards and printed ephemera collected by Conrad McKenna during his time as a student and teacher at The Glasgow School of Art. Including Christmas cards and printed ephemera such as: tickets, menus, exhibition signage, exhibition catalogue and materials produced by The Glasgow Art Club.
McKenna, Conrad
Flow: The Magazine of the Glasgow School of Art
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Includes the following issues:
Issue 1 - 2002 (2 copies)
Issue 2 - 2003 (2 copies)
Issue 3 - 2003 (2 copies)
Issue 4 - 2004 (2 copies)
Issue 5 - 2004 (2 copies)
Issue 6 - 2005 (2 copies)
Issue 7 - 2005 2 copies)
Issue 8 - 2006 (2 copies)
Issue 9 - 2006 (2 copies)
Issue 10 - 2007 (2 copies)
Issue 11 - Autumn/Winter 2007
Issue 13 - 2009
Issue 14 - 2011
Issue 15 - 2012
Issue 24 - 2021
The Glasgow School of Art
Publicity relating to GSA's Archives and Collections
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Includes magazine and newspaper articles publicising the Archives and Collections at The Glasgow School of Art.
*Not available / given
Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth
Ephemera relating to/created/accumulated during Fraser Taylor's time at The Glasgow School of Art.