Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Two posters advertising exhibition 'Bodies of Work', House for an Art Lover, Glasgow. Reverse features images of exhibited works and text by Jimmy Cosgrove.

Taylor, Fraser

Poster for Activities Week

GSAA/EPH/10/170
Item
1980s

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster was used to advertise The Glasgow School Of Art's annual activities week. A number of events were organised including: films, lectures, poetry, jazz folk, drama, contests, disco, a bar in the Haldane building, dance art, a drag talent show and a snooker competition. Activities week ran annually from the 1970s until the mid 1980s. During this week, classes stopped and various events were organised instead. The poster is annotated on the reverse with "J.Cosgrove".

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a talk by Lily Greenham

GSAA/EPH/10/178
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Late 20th century

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster advertised a lecture given by Lily Greenham who was known for her concrete and sound poetry. The lecture was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a lecture by Richard Smith

GSAA/EPH/10/158
Item
1970s

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster was used to advertise a lecture by the artist Richard Smith, who is known for his abstract colour paintings and sculptural works dealing with materials in reference to popular culture. The lecture was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art as part of the school's annual activities week in the early 1970s. The poster was designed and printed by Jimmy Cosgrove who worked as the head of textiles at The Glasgow School Of Art from 1973 to 1982.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a lecture by Ian Breakwell entitled 'Continuous Diary'

GSAA/EPH/10/163
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[1967]

Part of Records of The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

This poster advertised a lecture given by the artist Ian Breakwell that was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre at The Glasgow School Of Art. Breakwell is well known for working in a variety of mediums including print, installation, film and photography, however he is best known for making work based around his diary entries. He is also associated with The Artist Placement Group, an organisation set up in 1966 to bring art practice into hospitals and prisons. This particular lecture focused on work made between 1965 and 1967. The reverse of the poster is annotated with "J.Cosgrove".

Cosgrove, James

Cosgrove 3rd Textiles

DC 111/2/1
Item
Oct 1969

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Glasgow School of art Third Year Printed Textiles sketchbook labelled 'Botanic Gardens 1969'. Abstract designs.

Cosgrove, James

Royal College of Art Sketchbook

DC 111/2/19
Item
c1999-2001

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Includes drawings and landscape paintings and sketches, notes and designs of the playground, Grounds for Play, and the Art Park centre for Art and Heritage at House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Also includes a series of 14 photographic reproductions of acrylic paintings of landscapes.

Cosgrove, James

Textile design

DC 111/3/9
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Textile design

Cosgrove, James

Textile design

DC 111/3/13
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Abstract textile design.

Cosgrove, James

An illustrated talk on architecture and cartoons. Louis Hellman

DC 111/4/1
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Late 20th century

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Poster depicting a surreal tower surrounded by flying pigs. States "Mackintosh Lecture Theatre Monday 21 2.30pm".

Cosgrove, James

Glasgow School of Art Print Textiles Exhibition

DC 111/4/3
Item
12 Oct 1976-29 Oct 1976

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Poster for the exhibition of Print Textiles for the 1974 - 1976 class. Undercroft Gallery, Manchester Polytechnic.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1968

DC 111/6/1
Item
1968

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Screen printed Christmas Card.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1973

DC 111/6/6
Item
1973

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Screen printed Christmas Card.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1974

DC 111/6/7
Item
1974

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Double sided screen printed Christmas Card. Reads "best wishes for christmas and new year".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1978

DC 111/6/11
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1978

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Screen printed Christmas card. Reads "For he First Day of Christmas - a Partridge in a Pear Tree". Signed "Cosgrove 78".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1984

DC 111/6/18
Item
1984

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Print out of catalogue entry for DC 073/1/40.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1985

DC 111/6/20
Item
1985

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Printed Christmas card.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1999

DC 111/6/34
Item
1999

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

'Clyde Ghosts' Christmas Card. Reads on reverse "with best wishes for Christmas and Y2000. James and Janet".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas

DC 111/6/39
Item
c2003

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Christmas Card.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2009

DC 111/6/48
Item
2009

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design 1 Christmas Card. 'Crossroads'.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2012

DC 111/6/51
Item
2012

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Christmas Card. 'A Dream for Christmas'. Including two proofs.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2014

DC 111/6/55
Item
2014

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design 1. Christmas Card. 'I Saw Three Ships Sailing By'.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 2017

DC 111/6/59
Item
2017

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design 1. Christmas Card. 'Snowfield'

Cosgrove, James

Design for stained glass commission, Leeds Permanent Building Society

DC 111/7/3
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Design for stained glass commission for the Glenrothes branch.

Cosgrove, James

Queen Street Station glass mural

DC 111/7/6
Item
1972-1973

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Glass mural design for Queen Street Station, British Rail. Includes example of how it would look in-situ.

Cosgrove, James

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

With best wishes, Christmas 1986

Part of Papers of Conrad McKenna, student and staff member at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

Woman on zebra at night.

Cosgrove, James

Morvich 1976

DC 111/2/4
Item
1976-2016

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

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

Cosgrove, James

CHAIRS

DC 111/2/6
Item
1983

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Various chair designs. Inserted newspaper article "Art students show the fun side of degree courses", Clare Henry, Glasgow Herald Tuesday 14th June 1983. Including photograph of Paul Cosgrove.

Cosgrove, James

Silk-screen print, textile design

DC 111/3/2
Item
1971

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Textile design, hand printed silk-screen on paper.

Cosgrove, James

Dissertation project

DC 111/3/7
Item
1970-1971

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

James Cosgrove's Glasgow School of Art DA dissertation.

Square white/grey hardcover book with hand-printed silk-screens on paper and acetate. Images and poetry inside. Entitled 'Relationships. Thoughts and Things.'

Cosgrove, James

Textile design

DC 111/3/14
Item
1972

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Abstract textile design.

Cosgrove, James

Jimmy Cosgrove Recent Work Exhibition

DC 111/4/4
Item
05 Dec 1980-30 Dec 1980

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Poster for the exhibition of recent work by Jimmy Cosgrove at Glasgow Print Studio Gallery.

Cosgrove, James

Geborne Again

DC 111/4/5
Item
1980

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Reproduction of Geborne Again by Jimmy Cosgrove.

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1970

DC 111/6/3
Item
1970

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Screen printed Christmas Card, reads "best wishes for Christmas and the new year".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1976

DC 111/6/9
Item
1976

Part of Papers of James Cosgrove

Screen printed Christmas card, duplicates in two sizes. Read "A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR".

Cosgrove, James

Christmas 1977