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Decorative floral design

Large circular decorative design piece featuring various repetitive marks, shapes and a floral design. Painted in red, blue, pink, green and yellow on a background of brown watercolour. The back of the design reads ‘Jane S. Wilson, 18/6/1912’ in pencil, and ‘GSA 1930-34’ potentially added later in black ink.

Wilson, Jeanne

Handmade book of written and design work titled ‘History of Ornament’

Large handmade, ring-bound book titled ‘History of Ornament’. Contains a definition of ornamentation followed by a history of ornamentation and information about different historic types and styles of ornamentation, accompanied by hand-illustrated examples in pencil, black and coloured ink and paint. The cover is signed ‘Jane S. Wilson 18/6/1912’. Likely related to a course on the History of Ornament taught as a component of the second-year General Course.

Wilson, Jeanne

Poster advertising the Interior Design course at The Glasgow School of Art

This poster advertised the Interior Design course offered at The Glasgow School Of Art. The poster details the structure of the course and the vocational opportunities that could be gained with a degree in Interior Design. The poster also stipulates the entry requirements for the course. These were a minimum of 5 SCE passes or 3 at Higher grade, or 5 GCE passes, 2 at A level. It was mandatory that two of the subjects passed were Art and English.

Campbell, Alison

Poster for an exhibition by Sculpture and Environmental Art students at The Glasgow School of Art

Poster for Sculpture and Environmental Art exhibition, 2013

Students named in poster are Brigid Daly, Hugh Pottiger, Dorothy Cairns, Ruaridh Macpherson, Todd Braylor Pleasants, Grace Anne Johnston, Sarah Garcia, Luca George, Sharon McBrearty, Krysia Kordeki, Caroline Gooch, Louis Shekal, Christopher A W Milligan, Rachel Levine, Amy Pickles, Gordon Andrew McKerrow, James MacEachran, Jamie Kane, Gordon Douglas, Muyan Gao, Chris Silver, Delphine Dallison, Jen Martin, Rosie Sillitoe, Justyna Ataman, Aleksandra Roch, Patrick Queen, Dawn Mackinnon, Julia Wylie and Holly Goldsworthy.

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Printed page of images featuring embroidery and calligraphy work

Print on photographic paper containing two images of student work. Left: close-up of sample of embroidered cloth depicting a woman bent to water a plant in blue, green and cream thread, bordered with various decorative marks, shapes and images in multicolour. ‘1932’ and ‘JEAN WILSON’ are embroidered above and below the image in lilac thread. Right: image of a page of illuminated poetry (by Janet Begbie) hand-written in black ink and bordered by coloured ink illustrations relating to the poem’s themes of adventure, youth and travel at sea, in blue, green and red, as well as a decorative border in gold, blue, red and black.

Wilson, Jeanne

Printed page of photographs featuring female students

Printed page featuring three scanned black and white photographs. Top left depicts five women, likely GSA students, posed and smiling on a set of stairs; top right depicts two women wearing artists smocks stood next to a plaster bust; bottom right depicts fifteen women, likely students, and one man, likely their teacher, posed on the same stairs. The page is captioned ‘Diploma June 12th 1934 in Design & Decorative Art GSC’.

Wilson, Jeanne

The Corporation of Glasgow - Education Department Art Course Letters

3 Letters from the Corporation of Glasgow - Education Department, detailing the arrangements for a Special Art Course to Castle Toward from 13th July 1957 to the 27th of July 1957. On the third sheet, Wallace Shaw is noted as an attendee in his 5th year at Eastbank S.S., and had attended previous courses. Other sheets provide a packing list, travel arrangements, and personal message from H. Stewart Mackintosh (Director of Education).

The Corporation of Glasgow

The Glasgow School of Art Diploma

Diploma in Design and Decorative Art (Interior Design) from The Glasgow School of Art, awarded to Charles Alexander Wallace Shaw. Calligraphic writing dates the diploma from the 13th of June 1961. The diploma is stored in a blue tube, embossed with The Glasgow School of Art logo, and '35. Charles Shaw.' attached to the top.

The Glasgow School of Art