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Morning

Morning at Eton College. 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

Morning and Evening

Views of Windsor Castle and Conway Castle. 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

Morvich 1976

Sketchbook including illustrations of landscapes and abstract landscapes, mostly from Morvich and Rothesay. Including printouts from jimmycosgrove.files.wordpress.com from 2016.

Cosgrove, James

Morvich sketchbook

Abstract drawing with three shades of grey gouache applied with gestural brush marks. Annotated verso: ink drawing of male and female figures "life drawing use of line", "25".

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

Morvich sketchbook

Sketchbook page with drawing on both sides. Black ink drawing of abstract figures and line on side one and abstract line drawing done with ink and pen nib on side two.

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

Morvich sketchbook

One sketchbook page divided into two designs. Both drawings showing abstract shapes and figure outlines. Drawn in charcoal and pencil and rendered in brown and blue gouache. On the reverse: pencil line drawing of shapes. Similar to DC 089/1/2/4/32.

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

Morvich sketchbook

One sketchbook page consisting of two abstract drawings in gouache and charcoal. One drawing shows an abstract painted background with a line drawing in charcoal depicting three figures.

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

Morvich sketchbook

Two sided drawing on sketchbook page. Side one shows a black ink drawing of cows grazing in a field, with gestural marks. Side two has a faint pencil drawing of leaves and a drawing in conte crayon on tracing paper and taped to the paper with masking tape.

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

Morvich sketchbook

Abstract drawing in black ink with crosshatched lines and solid ink circles. Annotated verso "drawing of bay- quick almost child like drawing. Leaving the line as free as possible ignoring all detail- development, select lines and put into new format".

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

Morvich sketchbook

One sketchbook page divided into two drawings in charcoal, crayon, gouache and ink. Depicting a mountainous landscape with overdrawn figurative outlines. Annotated verso "Fraser Taylor 1980". Similar to DC 089/1/2/4/30.

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

Morvich sketchbook

One sketchbook page consisting of two abstract drawings in gouache and ink. One drawing shows an abstract painted background of horizontal lines and two stylised figures, one made from tracing paper and the other tissue paper. Annotated verso "Project figure shapes over landscape. tissue paper + line -colour- blue etc. Shadows- more extreme shapes- skirts etc. draw free mix materials". "wax line. earthy colour- small areas of bright colour".

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

Morvich sketchbook

Two sided drawing on sketchbook page. Side one shows a line drawing of figures in black ink, with a rendered background in grey and pink gouache. Side two displays two line drawings of the same female form, one in black ink and the other in pencil.

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

Morvich sketchbook

One sketchbook page divided into two drawings in charcoal, crayon, gouache and ink. Depicting a mountainous landscape with overdrawn figurative outlines. Annotated verso "Fraser Taylor 1980". Similar to DC 089/1/2/4/30.

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

Movement study

One sheet with a series of pencil sketches, source photographs attached, recording movement.  Handwritten note at the foot of the sheet records the date April 1997, 'the arms swing like gyroscopes to balance the action, contrapposto is not just a concept but a fact of movement'

Robertson, Frances

Museum, The Glasgow School of Art

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. This painting of the first-floor museum, looking East, is one of the very earliest artistic depictions of the building's celebrated interior.

Anderson, Elizabeth

Near Llanfair, North Wales

Study of river valley. 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

Newscutting featuring advertisement for the Art School Festival

The newscutting informs of the reception and dance that were held at The Glasgow School of Art on the day it was published. The evening entertainment included the presentation of two plays by Francis H. Newbery. It shows photographs of four principals in the plays: Miss J. Cameron, Mr A. G. Crombie, Mr J. C. M'Fayden, and Mr J. Huck.

Originally located within folder (DC 098/1/4).

*Not available / given

Newscutting featuring Haswell Miller alongside a group of people in the McLellan Galleries

The photograph features a senior group of ten men and two women. Archibald Haswell Miller is standing in the back, fourth from the left.

The supporting text reads "Yesterday was "touching-up day" for the R.S.W. Exhibition in the M'Lellan Galleries, Glasgow, where our camera man secured this interesting study. The group includes Robert Eadie, Norah Neilson Gray, R. C. Young, James Kay, Haswell Miller, A. M'Bride, J. W. Wright, A. P. Thomson (sitting), Tom Hunt, Miss Raeburn, Arch. Kay, and D. Fulton."

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1928?".

*Not available / given

Newscutting featuring Haswell Miller at the Meeting of the Governors

The photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller and Josephine Haswell Miller alongside a group of males and females.

The supporting text reads "A group at the meeting of the Governors of the Glasgow School of Art this week, when Mr John D. Revel (centre), of Chelsea, was introduced to the board on the occasion of his taking up duty.–"Bulletin" Photo." The newscutting is supported by a handwritten map located below it. It offers the list of names and the location of the subjects in the photograph.

The cardboard also displays additional annotations by Haswell Miller: "We accepted him with all kindness and welcome. After a few weeks he called the staff together and practically told us he was going to sack the lot! I anticipated this by accepting the keepership of the National Galleries. Edinburgh. (Not very well qualified but standard were low in 1930)".

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "c1928". Additional annotations below the photograph identify the people featured in it.

*Not available / given

Newscutting featuring the Scottish Art Club's Show

The photograph features a group of six men looking at a set of paintings hung on the wall.

The newscutting is titled "At a Scottish Art Club's Show". The supporting text reads "A group of artists and members of the Hanging Committee at the annual exhibition of work by members of the Glasgow Art Club, which is being held in the club's premises just now.–"Bulletin" Photograph."

An annotation on the top right corner of the cardboard shows "1926?".

*Not available / given

Nineteen Eighty Four

Subject matter derived from George Orwell's book, '1984' first published in 1949. The wood engraving depicts a group of workers, three in the foreground, and others climbing an external staircase.

Chapman, June Crisfield

Noon

Llanilted Vale, 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

North Wales cottages

Study of three cottages. 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

Northern Waterway

Abstract watercolour with layered collage. One of seven works presented to GSA by the Scottish Arts Council, as a result of the Council's collection being broken up and dispersed across Scotland.

Reeves, Philip

Notebook 1990s/2006

Contains sketches, notes and stories, including writing on airports. Some pages headed 'Las Fallas, Valencia, March 2005' and 'Route 66'. Includes sketches for a landscape series.

Cosgrove, James

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