- NMC/0475D
- Item
- c1940s-1950s
Study of trees.
Alison, Henry Young
Study of trees.
Alison, Henry Young
Poster for War Comforts Fund Dance
Part of Papers of Dorothy Campbell Smith, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Poster made from newspaper collage and white/yellow painted text on black background. Text reads 'War Comforts Fund Dance on Saturday 27th Nov 7-11pm Ticket 2/- Buffet. Glasgow School of Art, 168 Renfrew Street'. Label on back for 'The Unbroken Thread' exhibition.
Smith, Dorothy Campbell
Wooden stool with embroidered top (Version 1)
Part of Papers of Dorothy Campbell Smith, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Smith, Dorothy Campbell
Breaking waves, with rock formation to the foreground.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Summer landscape, with trees and water to foreground.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Winter landscape with cottage under snow. Location: Pinwherry, Ayrshire.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Beach and rocks in foreground; land on left, mid-distance.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Mountain scene.
Alison, Henry Young
Landscape under snow. Possibly near Pinwherry, Ayrshire.
Alison, Henry Young
Wooden stool with embroidered top (Version 2)
Part of Papers of Dorothy Campbell Smith, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Smith, Dorothy Campbell
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Seascape with rocks in foreground, land in mid-ground.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Study of cliff face.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Vase of flowers.
Alison, Henry Young
Sandy shoreline with headland in distance.
Alison, Henry Young
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Alison, Henry Young
Still life with jug, bottle and ornaments.
Alison, Henry Young
Thatched cottage, Isle of Jura
Thatched cottage with field/hedgerow to foreground.
Alison, Henry Young
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait of sailor.
Ewart, David Shanks
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
Cover for The Glasgow School of Art Club 'At Home' programme of music, 1909
Part of Papers of Archibald Haswell Miller and Josephine Haswell Miller (nee Cameron)
The cover image features two women and two men.
Miller, Archibald E Haswell
Records of the Glasgow School of Art Dramatic Club, Glasgow, Scotland
Contains 28 performance programmes, as well as one poster, drawings of the stage extensions and set designs for the March 1960 production of Hot Summer Night.
Glasgow School of Art Dramatic Club
Sketch of (Italian) decorative panels
Italian subject matter. A study from Mackintosh's tour of Italy in 1891 as part of the Alexander 'Greek' Thomson travelling scholarship.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Ex libris book plate for Fred J.M. Christie; figures in landscape.
King, Jessie Marion
Nude female figure.
Pringle, John Quinton
Female figure and face.
Pringle, John Quinton
Scroll work detail.
Pringle, John Quinton
Gas lamp details.
Pringle, John Quinton
Open flats.
Pringle, John Quinton
Cottage.
Pringle, John Quinton
Trees and buildings, 'Bewdley'.
Pringle, John Quinton
Fenced field.
Pringle, John Quinton
Includes three thumbnail double portraits.
Pringle, John Quinton
Includes three thumbnail double portraits.
Pringle, John Quinton
Unfinished abstract landscape. Lower left: The early stages of a water colour drawing (subsequently damaged) made by Mr. J. Q. Pringle when at Whalsay.
Pringle, John Quinton
Figure study. Inscribed: On school label on mount, Class 5831/1890/Pringle Age 24 etc.
Pringle, John Quinton
Male face profiles.
Pringle, John Quinton
Male face profiles.
Pringle, John Quinton
Female figures.
Pringle, John Quinton
Study of Feet.
Pringle, John Quinton
Head profile.
Pringle, John Quinton
Various figures.
Pringle, John Quinton
Houses and skyline.
Pringle, John Quinton
Abstract skyline.
Pringle, John Quinton
Abstract design for fabric.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Landscape study.
Pringle, John Quinton
Chimney stacks.
Pringle, John Quinton
Male figures.
Pringle, John Quinton
Figures and profiles.
Pringle, John Quinton