Artwork by Andrew Allan, lithographic artist and student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
- DC 006
- Collection
- 1882-1896
7 works of art, undated.
Allan, Andrew
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Artwork by Andrew Allan, lithographic artist and student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
7 works of art, undated.
Allan, Andrew
Papers and textiles of Sylvia Chalmers
A collection of work by textile designer Sylvia Chalmers, comprising Glasgow School of Art student material; work-related designs and sketches; magazine clippings; calligraphy samples; a programme for an exhibition titled "A centenary exhibition to celebrate the founding of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1882"; photographs; textiles such as aprons, tote bags, placemats, tea towels, kerchiefs, curtains and a banner; and textile design samples.
Chalmers, Sylvia
Poster for The Glasgow School Of Art Cassina exhibition in Milan
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibtion which showcased the work of design students from The Glasgow School Of Art in the Cassina Gallery in Milan. The exhibition took place as a result of the connections between Cassina Design in Italy and The Glasgow School Of Art. The poster was designed by Gordon Huntly who was the head of graphic design at The Glasgow School Of Art at that time. It was printed in the Foulis Building on an offset lithography printing press. The information on the poster translates as: "Design from Glasgow School Of Art: Cassina in Milan, March 23rd to April 6th. Ceramics. Embroidery and fabrics. Design for furniture, furnishings and industrial products. Jewellery and Silverware. Art Graphics, Illustration. Printed Fabrics".
Huntly, Gordon F
Poster for a screening of 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised a screening of Sam Peckinpah's 1974 film 'Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia', and Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's 1966 film 'It Happened Here'. The event was organised by The Glasgow School Of Art Film Society and was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre on The Glasgow School Of Art campus on the 3rd of May. The reverse of the poster is annotated with "Chris Webster Graphics 1979".
Webster, Chris
Poster for an exhibition entitled 'Design Work '85'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition of work by both past and present students from the School of Design and the Mackintosh School of Architecture at The Glasgow School Of Art. It features a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith who was a prominent economist during this period. He stated "It is on the artistic not less than on the engineering and scientific excellence that economic security and economic progress now depend," The exhibition was held between Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Mackintosh Museum at The Glasgow School Of Art. It ran from the 9th of February to the 1st of March 1985.
Grant, Christopher
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised a series of lectures that were held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre on the 18th of February. The talks provided students with advice about life after graduation.
Cairns, Brian
Poster for a lecture by Cedric Price
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised a lecture given by architect, teacher and writer Cedric Price. Price was known for his eccentric architectural designs that were perceived as both socially enabling and playful. The lecture was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art on the 10th of February.
Stewart, Robert
Poster for an exhibition of work by John Macfarlane
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition of work by John Macfarlane who was a student at The Glasgow School Of Art before moving to Wales to work as a set and costume designer. The exhibition was held in the Bourdon building on The Glasgow School Of Art campus from the 5th to the 18th of December 1979. Interestingly, John Macfarlane's name has been misspelled on the poster where his surname has been spelled as 'McFarlane'.
Stewart, Robert
Poster for a lecture by Brian Griffiths
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised a lecture by economist Brian Griffiths which was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art in December 1972. At this time, Griffiths worked as lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science, however he would later become advisor to Baroness Thatcher during her time as Prime Minister. He then became the Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs. This lecture focused on the topic of Christianity, capitalism and revolution and was organised by David Dobson who was head of the Sculpture department at The Glasgow School Of Art in 1972.
Cosgrove, James
Poster for a retirement party for William Drummond Bone
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised the retirement party of William Drummond Bone which was held in the Mackintosh Board Room on the 12th of January 1973. Bone was part of both The Royal Society of Arts and The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and taught drawing and painting at The Glasgow School Of Art between 1934 and 1973. The poster was designed and printed by Robert Stewart who was a senior lecturer in design at this time.
Stewart, Robert
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster appears to advertise a lecture and discussion by Dendler, Dendler and Dunlop which took place on Wednesday the 9th of December. The poster is annotated with ‘Sandy Prentice processed by Chuck Mitchell’.
Mitchell, Charles
Art, Design and Architecture collection
Artworks, design pieces and architectural designs related to Glasgow School of Art staff and students.
Items include
Almost all works are by former students and staff or figures related to the history of The Glasgow School of Art. The earliest pieces date from the 16th century and later examples have been purchased from recent Degree Shows. The work is in a variety of media and includes drawings, paintings, prints, sketchbooks, furniture and sculpture. Artists represented include many key figures and the most influential and successful students.
There are also several works from former tutors including Neil Dallas Brown, David Donaldson and Fred Selby, alongside contemporary works by students, donated or purchased at degree show. Key works include those by: Maurice Greiffenhagen, Francis Newbery, John Quinton Pringle, Benno Schotz, Ian Fleming and James D Robertson. Suites of note include large collections of Joan Eardley sketches and paintings, Joan Palmer prints, and architectural drawings by Eugene Bourdon.
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Poster for 'Fall Scenes' exhibition
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Poster for The Glasgow Masters Series exhibition with contributions from GSA Archives, at 134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, 05 Oct 2013-13 Oct 2013
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Poster for screening of film 'La Vie de Boheme', by Aki Kaurismaki
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Poster for screening of film 'La Vie de Boheme', by Aki Kaurismaki in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre, 26 Oct 2012
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Poster for screening of film 'Orlando', by Sally Potter
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Poster for screening of film 'Orlando', by Sally Potter in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre. Screening date is 08 Mar, year unknown but believed to be late 20th century.
*Not available / given
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
One of three posters for the Big Screen Film Festival at Glasgow School of Art in June 2012.
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Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
One of three posters for the Big Screen Film Festival at Glasgow School of Art in June 2012.
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Banner from The Glasgow School of Art Textile Department
Charles Rennie Mackintosh banner. Scaled replica of banner that the Hunterian owns, featuring a tall standing female figure with pink rose and green leaves details.
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Section of a poster advertising a series of film screenings at The Glasgow School Of Art
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
One third section of a poster advertising a series of films that were shown in The Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art. Screening were documentaries about artists including Mackintosh, Rousseau, Klee, McLaren, Giacometti, Hamilton, Paolozzi, Jones, Kitaj, Bosch and Spencer as well as a film entitled 'A Short Vision'. This section screenprinted in CMYK inks using both drawn elements and half dot images.
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Poster for a Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition in Norway entitled '20 chairs - 100 years'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster features white images of twenty chairs with grey text to advertise an exhibition held in Jugendstilsenteret, Ålesund, Norway, from 6th June to the 12th Oct 2003. The exhibition of twenty Mackintosh chairs from the Glasgow School of Art's collection formed part of the opening celebrations at Norway’s newest cultural attraction, the Jugenstilsenteret (Art Nouveau Centre), in Ålesund. Similar to Glasgow, this city is one of the founding partners of the EU-funded Réseau Art Nouveau Network. The School’s contribution was hoped to inspire further cultural and artistic ties between the two countries.
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Poster for a Charles Rennie Mackintosh Exhibition
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster is for a Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art, which ran from 1st July to 30 September 1988. The poster has a black and white design with orange font. It uses a geometric pattern which mimicks a Charles Rennie Mackintosh chair design.
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Glasgow School of Art commemorative plate
Ceramic blank decorated with pink image of north-west façade of The Glasgow School of Art. "Wedgwood of Etruria & Barlaston - A - Made in England" stamped on verso.
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Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth
Taylor, Fraser
Five cotton tea towels designed by Sylvia Chalmers.
Chalmers, Sylvia
The Glasgow School of Art tea towel
Printed tea towel of The Glasgow School of Art with an image of the Mackintosh building, in red on white background. Tea towel is made of two pieces of fabric sewn together and then printed.
Chalmers, Sylvia
Papers of Conrad McKenna, student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Includes
The cards and ephemera have been created by former Glasgow School of Art staff and students and friends of Conrad McKenna, including Gordon Huntly, Rosalind Bliss, Michael Moulder, Peter Sumsion, Michael Healey, Mark Severin and James Cosgrove.
This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.
McKenna, Conrad
Part of Papers of Conrad McKenna, student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
Greetings cards and printed ephemera collected by Conrad McKenna during his time as a student and teacher at The Glasgow School of Art. Including Christmas cards and printed ephemera such as: tickets, menus, exhibition signage, exhibition catalogue and materials produced by The Glasgow Art Club.
McKenna, Conrad
GSA Diploma Copper Etching Plate
Copper etching plate for Glasgow School of Art diploma.
Mainds, Allan Douglass
Glasgow School of Art Club diploma.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Print of the Mackintosh Building
Ink print (possibly lithograph) of the front elevation of the Mackintosh Building.
Ferguson, Hugh C S
Poster for a film screening of avant-garde short films
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 Annie Ricard Strauss has designed a poster advertisting a screening of avant-garde films, the poster has been created using screen printing techniques.
Straus, Annie Ricard
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
Part of Mary Ramsay artworks
A variety of artworks completed by Mary Ramsay, including life drawings, portraits, architectural studies, designs, prints, and illustrations. Some of these items are dated to her time as a student at The Glasgow School of Art. Most items are pencil on paper, with a few further studies in paint.
This subfond includes one item by Jessie Wilson (DC 110/1/1/18), another student of The Glasgow School of Art, with whom Mary Ramsay and Margaret Macdonald started a pottery decorating business at The Studio, Strathyre, in 1926.
Ramsay, Mary
Poster for a lecture by Gus Wylie
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised a lecture given by the photographer Gus Wylie which was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre on the 12th of November 1986. Wylie is known for his monochrome photography work and has taught at both University of the Arts in London and Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Stewart, Robert
Poster for a lecture by Theodore Roszak
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster is believed to advertise a lecture by Theodore Roszak entitled 'Conscience and Consciousness in the Art of Mackintosh'. It is believed to have been designed and made by Sandy Prentice and Chuck Mitchell.
Mitchell, Charles
Poster for a postgraduate fine art exhibition
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition showcasing work by graduating postgraduate fine art students from The Glasgow School Of Art in 1990. The exhibition took place between the 23rd and the 29th of June and was held in the Mackintosh Building. It included work by Alexander Dempster, James Hamlyn, Rachael Harris, Peter McCaughey, Donna Rae, Craig Richardson, Julie Roberts, Andrew Sneddon, Edward Stewart and Catherine Whippey. The photograph on the poster was taken by John Shankie and shows the exhibiting students posing inside the elevator in the Mackintosh Building. The poster was designed at The Glasgow School Of Art and printed by David J. Clark Limited.
Shankie, John
Poster for a film screening of 'Century of the Self: Happiness Machines'
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 Grace Gallacher has designed a poster for the Adam Curtis documentary 'Century of the Self: Happiness Machines'. The poster has been created using screen printing techniques.
Gallacher, Grace
Poster for a film screening of 'Umburto D.'
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 Aileen Crossley has designed a poster for the Virrorio Di Sica film 'Umburto D'. Crossley has created the poster using lithography techniques.
Crossley, Aileen
Poster for a film screening of 'Billy Liar'
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 Emily Harding has designed a poster for the John Schlesinger film 'Billy Liar'. Harding has created the poster using screen printing techniques.
Harding, Emily
Poster for a film screening of 'Alice in den Städten'
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 Oona Brown has designed a poster for the Wim Wender's film 'Alice in the Cities'. Brown has used screen printing techniques to create the poster.
Brown, Oona
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 a film screening of 'Sherlock Jr'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Poster for a film screening of the Buster Keaton film 'Sherlock Jr' in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre on Friday 30th November, 10:10am.
Hogg, Ross
Poster for a film screening of 'The Rebel'
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 Kate Costigan has designed a poster for the Robert Day film 'The Rebel'. To create this poster Costigan used screenprinting techniques.
Costigan, Kate
Poster for 'Exhibition Celebrating 70 Years Fashion Show 1947-2017', Glasgow
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Poster for 'Exhibition Celebrating 70 Years Fashion Show 1947-2017', Reid Building, Glasgow, 21 Mar 2017-22 Mar 2017. The exhibition celebrated 70 years of fashion shows at The Glasgow School of Art, and the fashion show that year was held whilst the exhibition was showing. The images on the poster are from the Archives & Collections.
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Poster advertising the Interior Design course at The Glasgow School Of Art
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised the Interior Design course offered at The Glasgow School Of Art. The poster details the structure of the course and the vocational opportunities that could be gained with a degree in Interior Design. The poster also stipulates the entry requirements for the course. These were a minimum of 5 SCE passes or 3 at Higher grade, or 5 GCE passes, 2 at A level. It was mandatory that two of the subjects passed were Art and English.
Campbell, Alison
Poster advertising the Interior Design course at The Glasgow School Of Art (Version 2)
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Campbell, Alison
Poster for exhibition entitled 'The Page Right Printed'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised an exhibition of work from The Private Press Movement with pieces ranging from the work of William Morris to the work of modern day artists. The exhibition was held in The Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh Museum and ran from the 1st to the 12th of May 1973.
Grant, Christopher
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised screenings of the films 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'The Connection' which took place in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre within The Glasgow School Of Art from the 12th of April to the 4th May 1990. Tickets for the event were priced at 30p per screening or £1 for five screenings.
Webster, Chris
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This is a poster for the 3rd year Textiles Fashion Show held at 7pm and 9pm each night from 8th-9th Mar 2011 . The event was accompanied by a boutique and secret postcard sale with an aftershow party held at the Buff Club. The event was sponsored by Mandors Fabric Store, Buchanan Galleries shopping centre, PRI and Mash amplification. One of the themes of this year's fashion show was the Newbery Tower, which was due for demolition during the School's summer vacation in 2011. The Archives also hold digital images of the secret postcard sale, which involved the selling of postcards created by past and present students on the theme of the Newbery Tower.
Asiedu, Mary
Poster for a series of talks with the tagline 'Turning Design Into Money'
Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
This poster advertised a series of lectures that took place in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art from the 19th of January to the 9th of March 1994. These lectures were part of the Enterprise In Higher Education Business Awareness Programme. There were six lectures in total including: - Intellectual Property and Copyright: Caroline Sincock (Murgitroyd and Company) - The Applied Arts - Some Case Histories: Barclay Price (Crafts Council) - The Business of Design: Joe Hall (Blue Peach) - Corporate Culture: Jane Priestman (BAA, BR) - Making Design Work: Raymon Turner (BAA, Gatwick, Kilkenny, Wolff Olins, London Transport) - Getting Started: Janice Kirkpatrick (Graven Images) The front of the poster has an annotation which reads "Dugald: Professional practice talks you asked about! (poster is done by us too) - Mike H."
Hall, Joe