Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

In July Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald spent a holiday in Dorset re-visiting many of the place he had visited in 1895. 'In 'The Village' and 'The Downs' Mackintosh makes his first conscious moves towards his mature style of the Port Vendres period. He is obviously concerned with the pattern of the landscape, picking out features like the stepped hillside, the stone walls, paths and roofs of village houses. These ordinary motifs are given an eerie emphasis by being painted in an equally detailed manner whether they are in the foreground of the the distance... it was probably at this time... that he decided to concentrate more and more on painting. By 1923 he had decided to forsake architecture and design and devote the rest of his life to producing watercolours.' (Roger Billcliffe).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

The Well, Toledo

NMC/1648
Item
c1912

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of women crowded around The Well in Toledo (inscription verso).

Jackson, Alexander Logan

Three churches

NMC/0230GGG
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of three churches; North Wales and Wiltshire. 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

Three Graces

NMC/0133
Item
1954

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of three chickens, against a black and yellow background.

Fleming, John B

Three river/country views

NMC/0230RR
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Studies of cottages and part of Caernarvon Castle, North Wales. 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

Three stone bridges

NMC/0230GG
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of three bridges; near Birmingham, Llanberis, (North Wales) and Arden, Warwickshire. Published in London.

Cox, David

Three wooden bridges

NMC/0230HH
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of three bridges; near Knowle (Warwickshire), Leicester and North Wales. 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

Timber cottages with sheep

NMC/1067
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Timber houses amongst trees

NMC/1070
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Tinkers

NMC/1699
Item
1946

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of two men against a pastoral landscape. The subject was painted whilst the artist was a student of Gourock High School. Annotated verso.

Gorman, James

Town view with ruins, Italy

NMC/1090
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Townhouse & trees

NMC/1097
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Probably Italy.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Townhouses, Italy (unfinished sketch)

NMC/1087
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Townscape

NMC/0764
Item
c1939

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Line of buildings, at centre of composition trees and chimney pots in foreground.

Gray, William

Townscape through trees

NMC/1257
Item
1913

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Archibald E Haswell

Trees with table and chairs in foreground

NMC/1071
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Annotated notes verso.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Twilight

NMC/0230G
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Snowdon seen across Fraeth Mawr, North Wales. 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

Two Elizabethan cottages

NMC/0230EE
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Two cottages; near Knowle, Warwickshire and Bromley, Kent. 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

Two water mills

NMC/0230II
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of two water mills near Llanfair, North Wales. 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

Two windmills

NMC/0230FFF
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of mills at Bromley, Kent and Dulwich Common, Surrey. 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

Untitled

NMC/0131
Item
1960-1961

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Abstract design.

Low, Bet

Untitled

NMC/0132
Item
Apr 1961-May 1961

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Abstract design.

Low, Bet

Untitled

NMC/0830
Item
c1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Abstract design.

Low, Bet

Untitled abstract

NMC/0129
Item
1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Abstract design.

Devlin, George

Untitled (Dog & Target)

NMC/0842
Item
1977

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.

Brown, Neil Dallas

Vase of flowers, with model ship

NMC/0482
Item
c1930s-1970s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Still life of flowers in vase, with model ship in left foreground.

Anderson, Daisy McGlashan

Venetian Canal Scene

NMC/1644
Item
c1908

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

View of Venetian canal with figures on a bridge.

Jackson, Alexander Logan

Venetian Canal Scene

NMC/1645
Item
c1908

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of Venetian canal with female figure under a colonnade in foreground.

Jackson, Alexander Logan

View in Surrey

NMC/0230Y
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Landscape with farmhouse. 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

View of Gourock Pier

NMC/1507
Item
c1970

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Landscape study. Signed verso: "View of Gourock Pier".

Christie, Fyffe

View of Italian town and mountains

NMC/1086
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

View of part of Battle Abbey, Sussex

NMC/0230WW
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

View of Battle Abbey with sheep grazing in foreground. 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

View on the Barmouth Road N.W

NMC/0230O
Item
1840

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Study of cottage in North Wales. 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

View over the Duomo, Florence

NMC/1085
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

"Josephine Miller" (in pen), bottom right.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

View, possibly overlooking Florence

NMC/1647
Item
c1908

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

A study possibly of the Boboli Gardens, Florence.

Jackson, Alexander Logan

Village landscape

NMC/1103
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Village on hillside

NMC/1189
Item
1912

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Probably the Cote Vermeille, France. "A E Haswell Miller 1920", bottom left.

Miller, Archibald E Haswell

Village scene with church

NMC/1158
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

"Josephine Miller" (in pen), bottom right.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Village scene with church

NMC/1159
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

"Josephine Miller" (in pen), bottom right.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Village scene with cows in foreground

NMC/1076
Item
17 Sep 1941

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

"Blair castle 17 Sept 41" (in pen), bottom right.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Village Scene, Berwick

NMC/1228
Item
1924

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

"A E Haswell Miller 1924" (in pen), bottom left. Annotated by artist.

Miller, Archibald E Haswell

Village with lake/river in foreground

NMC/1092
Item
c1940s-1960s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Probably France. Another design, verso.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Voldendam, Holland

NMC/1261
Item
1910

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Miller, Archibald E Haswell

Wall hanging designed for The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. The canvas relates to smaller watercolours in the Hunterian collection, formerly thought to be textile designs, and to their painted canvas, 'The Little Hills' by Margaret Macdonald. It is likely that they were intended for 'The Dug-Out', though it is not known whether they were ever installed there. Jessie Newbery recalled in 1933, that 'He (Mackintosh) and his wife spent the winter of 1914 painting two large decorations for Miss Cranston'. This would have been in Suffolk, after they had left Glasgow. Although The Dug-Out was not created till 1917-18 it is not unlikely that Miss Cranston was considering the project some years earlier. The canvas was found in the GSA in a single roll in 1981 and was cleaned and mounted on two stretchers.

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Wall hanging designed for The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. The canvas relates to smaller watercolours in the Hunterian collection, formerly thought to be textile designs, and to their painted canvas, 'The Little Hills' by Margaret Macdonald. It is likely that they were intended for 'The Dug-Out', though it is not known whether they were ever installed there. Jessie Newbery recalled in 1933, that 'He (Mackintosh) and his wife spent the winter of 1914 painting two large decorations for Miss Cranston'. This would have been in Suffolk, after they had left Glasgow. Although The Dug-Out was not created till 1917-18 it is not unlikely that Miss Cranston was considering the project some years earlier. The canvas was found in the GSA in a single roll in 1981 and was cleaned and mounted on two stretchers.

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie