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Self portrait

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Portrait or artist; standing and wearing waistcoat. This painting was almost certainly exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Art in 1964.

Mackintosh, John

Seascape

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

Spring, Dalry

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Landscape with figure amongst trees, Ayrshire.

Raeburn, Agnes

The Descent of Night

Appears in The Magazine, April 1894. 'The central figure is based upon that used in the 1893 design for a diploma for the GSA and like that in 'The Harvest Moon', has wings like an angel. Here, however, she appears naked and her outstretched arms and hair merge and are transformed into barren tree-like forms. These descend to the horizon behind which the sun is gradually disappearing under the feet of the winged figure. From the bottom of the picture, and directly beneath the sun, rises a flight of menacing birds. They are presumably nocturnal birds of prey and they seem to be flying directly towards the viewers. This is one of Mackintosh's earliest uses of this strange bird, which was to become more stylised and to appear in many different forms, in several media in his oeuvre.' (Roger Billcliffe).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Autumn

Bound in volume, The Magazine, November 1894. 'Behind a stylised tree stands another of Mackintosh's mysterious female figures, but this is the first one to appear that is not meticulously drawn. Only the head is shown in any detail, and the shape of the body is hidden by a voluminous cloak from which not even its limbs appear. This figure was to be repeated many times, becoming more and more stereotyped until, with the banners designed for the Turin Exhibition in 1902, the head is the only recognisably human part of a figure with a twelve-foot long, pear shaped torso. In 1895-96, Mackintosh was to develop this drawing into a poster for the Scottish Musical Review (Howarth, p1, 9F). The same cloaked figure appears with similar formal emblems at the ends of the branches of the bush.' (Roger Billcliffe).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Poster for a postgraduate fine art exhibition

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

A Pond

Bound in the November 1894 edition of 'The Magazine'. "It must have been something like this watercolour.... that evoked the 'critics from foreign parts' (as reported by Gleeson White in The Studio, pp88-9) to deduce 'the personality of the Misses MacDonald from their works' and see them as 'middle-ages sisters, flat footed, with projecting teeth and long past matrimony... gaunt, unlovely females'. Gleeson White who visited Glasgow to see the Mackintosh group was pleasantly surprised to meet two laughing comely girls scarce out of their teens." (MacLaren Young).

MacNair, Frances Macdonald

Leaf of Gold

In 1896 McNair held his first one-man show, an exhibition of pastels at the Gutekunst Gallery, London. Twenty-one works, including this, were displayed in distinctive dark-stained wood frames. McNair had clearly drawn inspiration from Whistler’s exhibition installations, even down to the typesetting of the catalogue. The entry for this work explained, ‘The Fairy is guarding the Leaf of Love from the Witch of Evil who has robbed the Tree of Life of all its other leaves.’

MacNair, James Herbert

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom". Sketch 'A' includes legend, 'this is our secret' and is signed T.O.M.

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom".

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom".

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom".

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom".

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom".

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom". Sketch 'L' is on a blank post card and includes the legend 'to Miss Brown in memory of Mr Olding from Trevor Makinson xxxx in 1955'

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom". Sketch 'M' includes the name ML Reeves

Makinson, Trevor Owen

Caricature

One of 38 caricatures sketches of GSA staff. Some of which are double sided, and some individually named. Some drawn on chocolate bar wrappers, some signed "Tom".

Makinson, Trevor Owen

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