Pharaisees & Rabbis (from Salome)
- NMC/0098D
- Item
- c1900
Costume design for performance of Salome.
Smyth, Dorothy Carleton
Pharaisees & Rabbis (from Salome)
Costume design for performance of Salome.
Smyth, Dorothy Carleton
Phare D'Ailly, Seine Maritime, France
"AEH Miller Phare D'Ailly 1913" (in pen), bottom right.
Miller, Archibald E Haswell
Photograph of a bay view painting
Part of Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
A sepia-toned photograph of a watercolour painting depicting Gourock Bay, as annotated "Gourock at the Clyde" on the reverse. Signed "W. Meldrum," but not dated.
Meldrum, William
Photograph of a country house painting
Part of Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
A monochrome photograph of a watercolour landscape painting depicting a house in the countryside. Signed "W. Meldrum," but not dated.
Meldrum, William
Photograph of a country mansion painting
Part of Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
A monochrome photograph of a watercolour landscape painting featuring a mansion in the country. Signed "W. Meldrum,"and dated "1920" assumed to be the date of creation of the painting.
Meldrum, William
Photograph of a painting featuring a boat on the river Tweed
Part of Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
A monochrome photograph of a watercolour landscape painting depicting two people near the river Tweed in Melrose, Scotland. One person is standing towards the river, while another is on a floating boat in the painting. Signed "W. Meldrum," but not dated. Includes the annotation "The Tweed near Melrose" on the reverse of backing paper.
Meldrum, William
Photograph of a stream view painting
Part of Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
A monochrome photograph of a watercolour painting depicting the stream in Clarkston, Scotland, as annotated "Placid Stream Clarkston" on the reverse. Signed "W. Meldrum," but not dated.
Meldrum, William
Photograph of the Cuillin Hills view painting
Part of Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
A monochrome photograph of a watercolour painting depicting the view of the Cuillin Hills on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Annotated "Loch Scavaig, The Cuillin Hills from the south" on the reverse, but not dated.
Meldrum, William
Photograph of Tollcross Park view painting
Part of Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
A black-and-white photograph of a watercolour painting featuring a view from Tollcross Park in Glasgow. A distant building, assumed to be a church, is visible over the woodland scenery. Annotated "Tollcross Park Glasgow" on the reverse, but not dated.
Meldrum, William
Photograph of William McCance in front of his work
Mounted photograph of William McCance in front of two of his paintings, plaster cast foot in background.
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Photograph of William McCance work
Photograph of William McCance painting, with palette, paint and brushes in foreground.
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Study of a unnamed Piazza, possibly in Venice.
Jackson, Alexander Logan
Two figures sunbathing on a tropical beach with palm tree and a row of brightly coloured striped sun shelters.
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Two roses in wine glass, one rose in glass bottle, dog ornament.
Anderson, Daisy McGlashan
Study of 50 different species of flower/plant.
Wilson, Williamina R
Part of Material relating to Gerard V Murphy, former GSA student
A pattern design featuring a repeating motif of plants with purple-coloured stems, blue-toned leaves, and green petals.
Murphy, Gerard V
Two studies of trees; pollard willow and oak. From "A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Watercolours: from the first rudiments to the finished picture: with examples in Outline, Effect, and Colouring", first published in London by S & J Fuller in 1814, republished in 1840.
Cox, David
Landscape study.
Pringle, John Quinton
Costume design for Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Smyth, Dorothy Carleton
Portrait of a man in a frock coat
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Male portrait.
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This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of a young girl.
Alison, David
Study of a young woman. Verso: Drawing (sanguine), Maurice Greiffenhagen, RA. RP. LLD.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
Oil painting, portrait of Agnes D Smith
McCance, William
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of architect, Alexander Adam.
Gallacher, William
Portrait of Alexander McGibbon
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of Glasgow architect Alexander McGibbon. Inscribed above: Alexander McGibbon A.R.I.B.A.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of the artist Ancell Stronach.
Law, Andrew
Portrait of Douglas Percy Bliss
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of former Glasgow School of Art director.
Dodd, Phyllis
Portrait of the architect, Fred Selby. Signed MS, for Manfred Salinger, Selby's birth name (top right).
Selby, Frederick
Portrait of Hugh Adam Crawford
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of Hugh Adam Crawford, in white tunic, bearded.
Oliver, Cordelia
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of the architect-lecturer.
Gallacher, William
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of architect-lecturer Hugh Ferguson against a backdrop of the Glasgow School of Art.
Laurie, John
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of the Glasgow photographer James Craig Annan, 1884-1945. Inscribed on frame: "James Craig Annan 1884-1945 by Francis H. Newbery, Director GSA, 1885-1917".
Newbery, Francis Henry
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of Glasgow architect Joe Park.
Gallacher, William
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of Glasgow architect, John Keppie. Signed lower left: To my friend John Keppie/Maurice Greiffenhagen 1917.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
Portrait of Josephine Cameron (Haswell Miller)
Annotated verso by artist's daughter.
Miller, Archibald E Haswell
Portrait study of fellow GSA student, Kerry.
Snow, Rebecca Lucy
Portrait study of bearded man.
Herbert, Joanna Lethem
Portrait of Marion Osborne Blythe (nee Dempster)
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of a lady.
Mainds, Allan Douglass
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of a lady.
Wilson, David Forrester
Portrait of Sir Harry Jefferson Barnes
Portrait of former Glasgow School of Art director.
Donaldson, David Abercrombie
Portrait of Sir Hector Clare Cameron
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of Sir Hector Clare Cameron (1843-1928), Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Glasgow. This is a study of the finished work held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
Greiffenhagen, Maurice
The sitter was a painting student at GSA.
Atherton, Barry
Portrait of young man standing in front of fireplace.
Wilson, Helen F
Poster for a film screening of 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster is part of a course project organised by the Visual Communications department. The brief for the project required students to design a poster for a particular film they had been assigned. In this example, student Robert Heatherington has designed a poster for the Carl Dreygar film 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'. Heatherington has created the poster using screen print techniques.
Heatherington, Robert
Poster for an exhibition of paintings by Jock MacInnes
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition of paintings by Jock MacInnes, a graduate of The Glasgow School Of Art. The exhibition was held in the Mackintosh Museum in The Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Building from the 27th of October to the 7th of November 1975.
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Poster for an exhibition of the work of The Glasgow Girls, 1890-1930
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster for a major exhibition of painting, decorative and applied art by the Glasgow Girls from 1890 to 1930 uses an Eleanor Allen Moore painting as the background. It was a touring exhibition by the Kirkcudbright 2000 group. Over 100 exhibits were provided by the three main Scottish collections of 'Glasgow Girls' work - Glasgow Museums, The Glasgow School of Art and the Hunterian Gallery of the University of Glasgow, and the exhibition ran from 19th Nov to 20th Dec 2010. Artists and makers represented included Annie French, Margaret Gilmour, Norah Neilson Gray, Jessie M. King, Frances and Margaret Macdonald, Jessie Newbery and many others. Several private individuals also lent significant works, many of which had never been viewed in public before. The exhibition was curated by Liz Arthur, formerly a Glasgow Museums curator, who was involved in the last major exhibition on the 'Glasgow Girls' in Glasgow 1990. She also wrote a book to co-incide with this exhibition: 'Glasgow Girls : Artists and Designers 1890-1930' (Alba Printers Ltd, 2010). The exhibition was accompanied by a series of Lunchtime Lectures.
The following additional information was provided by the creator in September 2020:
"During my third year as a Graphic Design student, my fellow student Patrick Macklin who was studying Interior Design approached me with a request for technical help in producing a poster for the “Glasgow Girls” exhibition which he had been asked to produce. As this was the era of pre-digital, creating a poster for printing was quite a specialist task and was really the domain of Graphic Designers.
The artwork began by sourcing an archive image of historical female students in Glasgow School of Art in the Mackintosh era that could be scaled up to the finished size and retain a high enough visual quality. Because the concept that we decided on would heavily reference Mackintosh, I decided to use his signature violet colour and chose the exact colour from a pantone chart, that is so heavily associated with Mackintosh to create a duotone of the archival photograph.
Once I established the finished size of the poster, I drew by hand the printers marks that would establish cropping, registration of the separated colours and alignment of the layers on a sheet of heavy CS10 board (I think I did not eat for a couple of days to afford that board!).
The next stage was to create an area that would convey the information that the poster would communicate to the viewer. As this was the pre-digital era, I had to work out all the line lengths and the subsequent point sizes and weights required for the information block at the foot of the poster using type catalogues, rulers and casting off rulers. Once this was established, I requested to the operator of the GSA’s linotype photosetting machines to print out a galley proof of the type, once I was happy with the layout and weights of the type. I chose the font from the limited range that was available to the operator, as these fonts were mastered on glass slides that would be inserted into the linotype machine and were very expensive and therefore very limited in range. I settled on Book Antiqua as it was one of the least boring of the serif font choices and was also similar to the font used by Prefab Sprout in there “Swoon” album which I had nearly worn out the grooves of by that time!
I then used traditional art materials such as Letraset, drafting film, rubalith, rotring rapidograph pens and scalpels to create the text area. I hand drafted the dashed stroke around the border of the text area to invoke Mackintosh’s distinct use of these in his work. To create harmony and visual balance, I also hand cut a further two perfect squares using a half tone letraset dot matrix on a further layer to fill the void at either end of the “Girls” line of text to make a block so reminiscent of the Japanese wood cut influence in Mackintosh’s typography without being too literal.
It was really difficult in those days to source “camera ready” artwork for the sponsors logos, as companies in those days regarded any activity outside official Design Studios with the utmost suspicion. Eventually we managed to source these and I scaled them to the correct size using an Agfa Repromaster copy camera and the dark room. All these elements were then pasted on to the CS10 backboard or drafting film layers with measurement and precision using low tack spray mount.
The finished artwork was then sent to the Printer to be screen printed. I also supplied the pantone ink numbers they were to use for the screen printing in a list.
I was lucky enough to receive (as payment for my services) a “free” copy of the poster for my portfolio which I still have today!"
Devlin, Alistair
Poster for an exhibition of work by Brian Kelly
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition of prints by the artist Brian Kelly. The exhibition was held in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.
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Poster for an exhibition of work by John O'Connor
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised two exhibitions happening coherently at The Glasgow School Of Art in early 1977. The main feature was an exhibition of work by John O'Connor which was held in the Mackintosh Museum and featured pieces in a variety of mediums including drawing, painting, wood-engraving, graphics and illustration. O'Connor spent a brief period lecturing at The Glasgow School Of Art in the graphic design department from 1978 to 1979. The second exhibition was entitled 'The National Book League Exhibition Of Book Design and Production' and was held in the Mackintosh Library. A duplicate of this poster can be found under reference number GSAA/EPH/10/193.
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Poster for 'Berlin - Kulturstadt Europas 1988', Germany
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Poster for 'Berlin - Kulturstadt Europas 1988' [Berlin European City of Culture], Berlin, Germany. Artwork featured is 'Fish and Panhead' by Bruce McLean, 1983.
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