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Photograph of Haswell Miller dressed as a medieval King

The photograph features Archibald Haswell Miller dressed as a medieval King. The annotations show the text "Glasgow 1910 / I stood in [...] A. L. Jackson (a handsome fellow student or staff [...]) as a King in a [...] which in retrospect was quite a fine production at the School of Art. (I [...] the [...] grown beard did it for me!)".

An annotation on the top right corner shows "1909-10".

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Photograph of a sculpture (front)

Black and white photograph of a bronze male head sculpture sitting on a box. Male figure has a chin strap beard and prominent nose. Says ""Jack Dalziel" - by Helen Biggar - c. 1939" written in blue pen with "92B" circled verso. Jack Dalziel (real name "John") was likely a friend of Helen's.

Biggar, Helen Manson

Photograph of a painting featuring a boat on the river Tweed

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

Pencil self portrait of John Murdoch

A pencil sketch of a young man working in the sculpture workshop.  A hand written label on the reverse reads, 'John Murdoch sketch by himself at Glasgow School of Art when a student.'  In another hand, the dates 1824 - 1954 have been added. On the backing sheet, another note reads,' John Murdoch (1824 - 1854) Self portrait at Glasgow School of Art when Rector.'

Murdoch, John

Pencil drawing

Colour drawing of bust portrait of figure wearing feathers and bird skeleton, on grid background.

Cosgrove, James

Pencil drawing

Colour drawing of acrobatic scene. Seven figures depicted performing various acrobatic and circus related activities, including unicycling, dancing and acrobatics.

Cosgrove, James

Pencil drawing

Colour drawing of bust of a woman and a pair of hands, on a grid background. Signed "Cosgrove '77" bottom right.

Cosgrove, James

Pattern designs

15 painted pattern designs featuring floral, organic, and geometric motifs, including one book cover design for 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift. Most of these designs are likely intended for use in wallpaper, textiles, or graphics, and attached to black backing paper. Some include annotations of student registration no. ("No. 71") and signed "Gerard Murphy."

Murphy, Gerard V

Pastoral scenes

Two landscape studies. 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

Paris and Wester Ross

Sketchbook started in Paris, includes sketches of 'One Minute Sculptures' by Erwin Wurm. Also, landscape sketches of Wester Ross.

Cosgrove, James

Paris 2008

Travel journal, including sketches, drawings, paintings and notes, mixed media collages, and photographs.

Cosgrove, James

Papers of William R Hunter

  • DC 011
  • Collection
  • 1896-1967

Collection includes:

  • Diary written while travelling on Keppie Scholarship, 1913-1914
  • Collection of 250 postcards of European cities, paintings, sculptures collected on tour, 1913-1914
  • 12 ink sketches of Childe Ronald's Pilgrimage by TWYM (aka A.S. Boyd), n.d.
  • Exhibition catalogues
  • Illustrations

The collection also includes original illustrations drawn by A S Boyd (aka TWYM) and Stephen Reid, both noted Scottish illustrators.

Additional uncatalogued material includes

  • x 6 photographs
  • x1 GSA practical notes on materials for painting
  • x1 diploma for May Jackson
  • x1 diploma scroll for William Reid Hunter

Please note that this material is not yet fully catalogued and therefore some items may not be accessible to researchers.

Hunter, William R

Papers of the Ballantine family, students at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

  • DC 025
  • Collection
  • c1900-1995

The collection is comprised of Lewis Ballantine's own works of art such as life drawings, self portraits, design work and sketchbooks, and photographs, as well as sketchbooks and notebooks that belonged to his mother and father.

The work in the collection by Lewis Ballantine forms a valuable record of his time at the Glasgow School of Art. They show the development of his work as an artist, and provide an example of the type of work that Drawing and Painting students were required to produce during this period.

Lewis Ballantine's mother, Alice Longmuir Nisbet was herself at Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s, and was involved in the Socialist Art Circle. The sketchbooks in this collection also contain works by other members of the group such as Stuart Henderson, Jimmy Morton, James ("Jimmy") Ogilvie, W. C. Thompson and John McLean. The photographs in the collection picture Alice Longmuir Ballantine and John ("Jack") Hendry Ballantine, and Lewis Ballantine's maternal grandfather, Robert Dow Nisbet.

Collection includes:

  • Notebooks belonging to Robert Dow Nisbet, 1930s
  • Sketchbook belonging to Robert Dow Nisbet, 1930s
  • Sketchbook of Jack Hendry Ballantine, 1930s
  • Sketchbook of Alice Longmuir Nisbet, includes sketches from other members of the Socialist Art Circle, 1936
  • "Dun Breatann" Sketchbook of Lewis Ballantine, 1966
  • "History of Costume" Sketchbook of Lewis Ballantine, 1967
  • Photographs of Robert Dow Nisbet, Alice Nisbet, c1945, Jack Hendry Ballantine c1970, Alice and Jack Ballantine, June 1995.
  • Correspondence to Alice Nisbet, 4 letters, 1938-1995

Ballantine, John Hendry

Papers of James Cosgrove

  • DC 111
  • Collection
  • 1968-2020

Collection includes artworks and sketchbooks made by Jimmy Cosgrove as a student at the Glasgow School of Art; while working as a Tutor and the Director of the Glasgow School of Art; and afterwards, including work relating to the House for an Art Lover, and documenting travels across Europe, North America, and Mexico.

Cosgrove, James

Papers of Francis H Newbery, Director of Glasgow School of Art, 1885-1918

Includes:

  • general correspondence, 1905-1909, 1911-1914 and 1916
  • correspondence between Newbery and school staff, 1909-1916
  • correspondence on Morley Fletcher, Principal of ECA, September 1912
  • correspondence with visiting lecturers, March-May 1914.
  • later acquisitions of material relating to Newbery, including some working papers and correspondence from his time as Director in addition to papers dating to after his retirement, family records and photographs, and written materials regarding Newbery.

Newbery, Francis Henry

Papers of Dorothy Doddrell

  • DC 094
  • Collection
  • 1910-1925

Variety of materials relating to the works of Dorothy Doddrell, including designs relating to the creation of First World War Roll of Honours; designs created by Doddrell; life drawing studies; and reference materials.

Doddrell, Dorothy Maria F

Papers of Archibald Haswell Miller and Josephine Haswell Miller (nee Cameron)

  • DC 098
  • Collection
  • [1885-1943]

A variety of loose artworks, cover designs, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, diaries and sketchbooks completed by and belonging to Archibald Haswell Miller and Josephine Haswell Miller (nee Cameron). The collections includes proofs for book covers and pamphlets, personal correspondence relating to his studies and subsequent career, different ephemera relating to Haswell Miller's student days and photographs of artworks and students and staff members of The Glasgow School of Art.

This collection also includes material relating to Georges-Marie Baltus (DC 098/2) , including photographs of his artworks and his Italian and European trips, and Francis H. Newbery (DC 098/3).

Miller, Archibald E Haswell

Papers and photographs of William Meldrum, artist, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

  • DC 120
  • Collection
  • c1880s-1970s

A number of sketches and photographs of works by William Meldrum. This collection includes figure and illustrative drawings, unique pieces made of seaweed, and a series of monochrome photographs featuring landscape paintings. Most of the items are undated however the dates of creation are presumed to fall between the 1880s and 1920s. A set of typewritten paper by an unknown author dated after 1966, features a brief biography of Meldrum and descriptions of two drawings along with their custodial histories.

William Meldrum tended to work on depicting city views of Glasgow in the early 20th century and landscapes of diverse areas in Scotland. He created multiple pieces of black-and-white photographs on which his paintings have been printed; some of the photographs have identical versions.

Meldrum, William

Papers and artworks related to Colin Wilson, student at The Glasgow School of Art, 1970s

  • DC 123
  • Collection
  • 20th century

Collection includes: Artworks by Colin Wilson including drawings, paintings, prints and graphic design works; artworks by various artists collected by Colin Wilson including prints by Alasdair Gray, Elspeth Lamb and Alan Cox; associated papers and ephemera including notebooks from Wilson's studies at school and at The Glasgow School of Art, exhibition posters and Wilson's Curriculum Vitae; and material related to Peter Blake including magazine articles, correspondence and photographs.

Wilson, Colin

Pan

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. A depiction of the Greek god Pan. One of seven works presented for GSA by the Scottish Arts Council, as a result of the Council's collection being broken up and dispersed across Scotland.

Gibbons, Carole

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