Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Poster for an exhibition entitled 'Mackintosh in Context: the European Connection'

GSAA/EPH/10/268
Item
[Jul 1990]

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

This poster, which is orange in colour, advertised an exhibition of work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which was held in the Mackintosh Building, Room 31, on the Glasgow School of Art campus. The show focused on 'Mackintosh in Context: the European Connection', running from the 7th of July until the 18th of August 1990. The exhibition was sponsored by Black Bottle Scotch Whisky.

Peffer, Karen

Poster for a film screening of 'Slacker'

GSAA/EPH/10/279
Item
[Jan 2012]

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 Tu Lang has designed a poster for the Richard Linklater film Slacker. Lang used photo-lithography techniques to create the poster.

Lang, Tu

Poster for screening of film 'Eraserhead''

GSAA/EPH/10/407
Item
[1990s-2010s]

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

Poster for screening of film 'Eraserhead' at the Barnes Lecture Theatre. Screening date is Thursday 08 Feb, year unknown but believed to be from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Not available / given

Key to 1989 Degree Show photograph

GSAA/EPH/10/432
Item
1989

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

Key to 1989 Degree Show photograph. Photograph of 1989 Degree Show students on the steps of the Mackintosh Building annotated with the handwritten names of 41 students.

Not available / given

Sketchbook

DC 110/2/1/p21
Part
[1914-1915]

Part of Mary Ramsay artworks

A sketchbook of notes and artworks by Mary Ramsay produced during her first year at The Glasgow School of Art, around 1914-1915. This item consists of portraits and life drawings, children's illustrations, lettering, costume designs, studies of ceramic samples, floral patterns, a list of reference books about art and design, and a Little Willie rhyme. Most artworks are in pencil, while some are in ink or paint on paper. Some illustrations have been pasted in from other sources. A number of loose ephemera items are also included in the sketchbook, including postage stamps and a newspaper advert for paint tubes.

Ramsay, Mary

Sketchbook

DC 110/2/1/p146
Part
[1914-1915]

Part of Mary Ramsay artworks

A sketchbook of notes and artworks by Mary Ramsay produced during her first year at The Glasgow School of Art, around 1914-1915. This item consists of portraits and life drawings, children's illustrations, lettering, costume designs, studies of ceramic samples, floral patterns, a list of reference books about art and design, and a Little Willie rhyme. Most artworks are in pencil, while some are in ink or paint on paper. Some illustrations have been pasted in from other sources. A number of loose ephemera items are also included in the sketchbook, including postage stamps and a newspaper advert for paint tubes.

Ramsay, Mary

Sketchbook

DC 110/2/2/p143
Part
[1915-1916]

Part of Mary Ramsay artworks

A sketchbook of notes and artworks by Mary Ramsay believed to have been produced during her second year at The Glasgow School of Art, around 1915-1916. This item consists of portraits and life drawings, children's illustrations, floral patterns, religious illustrations, and sketches of her lessons. It also includes transcriptions from two poems, Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market', and William Cowper's 'The Task', alongside notes listing reference books about art and design.

Ramsay, Mary

Sketchbook

DC 110/2/4/p71
Part
[1918]

Part of Mary Ramsay artworks

A sketchbook of notes and artworks by Mary Ramsay. This item does not include an official date, but is presumed to be from 1918, when Ramsay was still at The Glasgow School of Art, due to dates included in some illustrations. This sketchbook includes floral illustrations, religious illustrations, greeting card designs, portraits and life drawings, and some notes.
There is one loose drawing included in this sketchbook. Most artworks are in pencil, with a few additional pieces in ink or paint on paper.

Ramsay, Mary

Poster for screening of film 'Vampyr', by Carl Dreyer

GSAA/EPH/10/372
Item
[Late 20th century]

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

Poster for screening of film 'Vampyr', by Carl Dreyer in the Bourdon Lecture Theatre. Screening date was 11 Jan, year unknown but believed to be late 20th century.

*Not available / given

Poster for an exhibition called 'Poster Graphics' by Paul Peter Piech

GSAA/EPH/10/376
Item
[Late 20th century]

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

Poster for 'Poster Graphics, Peter Paul Piech' exhibition at the Mackintosh Museum. The exhibition date was 01 May-10 May, year unknown but believed to be late 20th century. Blue edition.

*Not available / given

Poster for an exhibition 'Scozia a Cassina Milano'

GSAA/EPH/10/379A
Item
1984

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

Poster for exhibition 'Scozia a Cassina Milano' by The Glasgow School of Art students held in Milan, Italy, 23 Mar 1984-06 Apr 1984. The exhibition included ceramics, embroidery and fabrics, design for furniture, furnishings and industrial products, silverware and jewellery, graphic art, illustration and printed fabrics.

*Not available / given

Poster for a lecture by Zandra Rhodes entitled 'You Can Take The Stigma Out Of Punk, But Safety Pins Stay - Ok?' (Version 1)

GSAA/EPH/10/119B/v1
Part
[Apr 1981]

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

Poster to mark the production of 'A Macbeth' at The Glasgow School of Art

GSAA/EPH/10/396
Item
1973

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

Poster to mark the production of 'A Macbeth' at The Glasgow School of Art. It includes images of Elizabethan costumes and the Globe and Swan Theatres.

*Not available / given

Image from student photo shoot

Part of Textiles and papers of Fraser Taylor, GSA student and designer with The Cloth

Photograph from a 1976 Fraser Taylor collection. Model, cropped at head, wearing deconstructed jumpsuit.

Taylor, Fraser

GSA illuminated manuscript

NMC/0447
Item
1899

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Illuminated manuscript documenting the opening of the first stage of GSA, 20 Dec 1899.

Macbeth, Ann

GSA Illuminated manuscript

NMC/0448
Item
1909

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Illuminated manuscript documenting the opening of the second stage of GSA, 15 December 1909.

Andrews, Edith Lovell

Poster for lecture 'Paolozzi "Images & Media"', Glasgow

GSAA/EPH/10/457
Item
[c1970s]

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

Poster for lecture and slide show 'Paolozzi "Images & Media"', Haldane Building, Glasgow, 11 Feb. The year is not given but is believed to be c1970s.

Not available / given

Design for a Glasgow School of Art Club 'Programme'

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Featuring two seated, semi-clothed female figures integrated amongst swirling plant forms.

Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald

Low-backed armchair for the Director's Room, Glasgow School of Art

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Designed for the Director's Room, Glasgow School of Art. Twelve chairs were made in 1904 for the GSA, but William Davidson acquired a further two, with six of MC/F/58 for use as dining chairs in the hall at Windyhill. Twelve chairs reupholstered in brown horsehair 1984. One chair on loan from Glasgow University, returned 1984. These items were assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Low-backed armchair for Board Room, Glasgow School of Art

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Designed for the (new) Board Room, Glasgow School of Art. A more elaborate version of the chairs designed for the original Board Room in 1899 (MC/F/18).

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Lampshade for Library, Glasgow School of Art - Medium Canister (Version 4)

MC/F/96XX/v4
Part
1907-2016

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Poster for a retirement party for David Donaldson

GSAA/EPH/10/131
Item
[May 1981]

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

This poster advertised a retirement party arranged in honour of David A. Donaldson. Donaldson grew up in Coatbridge near Glasgow. He received a place at The Glasgow School Of Art at the age of fifteen despite having no formal qualifications and went on to become the head of drawing and painting in 1967. He was recognised for his portraiture, notably his portrait of Queen Elizabeth the Second in 1967. Donaldson remained at The Glasgow School Of Art until his retirement in 1981. The retirement party was held in The Glasgow Art Club on Bath Street in Glasgow on the 24th of June 1981. The poster was printed by Bob Stewart who was head of design at The Glasgow School Of Art at this time.

Stewart, Robert

Poster for a farewell dinner for Lennox Paterson

GSAA/EPH/10/132
Item
[Dec 1979]

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

This poster advertised a retirement dinner for Lennox Paterson. Paterson worked at The Glasgow School Of Art between 1964 and 1979, occupying various roles including Head of Design and Deputy Head of the school. He was highly regarded for his wood engravings of animals and the poster features elements of this style. The event was held in the Bourdon Hall at The Glasgow School Of Art on the 20th of December 1979. The poster was designed and printed by Bob Stewart who was a senior lecturer in printed textiles at this time.

Stewart, Robert

Poster for a lecture by Richard Smith

GSAA/EPH/10/133
Item
Late 20th century

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

This poster advertised a lecture by Richard Smith which was held in the Haldane Building at The Glasgow School Of Art. The poster was designed and printed by Jimmy Cosgrove who worked as a senior lecturer in the textiles department at this time.

Cosgrove, James

Poster for a George Melly concert

GSAA/EPH/10/138
Item
[Feb 1981]

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

This poster advertised a concert by the eccentric jazz musician George Melly which was held in the Bourdon Assembly Hall on Tuesday the 3rd of March 1981. Another poster advertising a George Melly concert at The Glasgow School Of Art in 1992 can be found under the reference number GSAA/EPH/10/30.

Stewart, Robert

Poster for a lecture by Lily Greenham

GSAA/EPH/10/148
Item
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 fashion show at The Glasgow School Of Art

GSAA/EPH/10/101
Item
1974

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

This poster advertised The Glasgow School Of Art's 1974 fashion show which was held in the Mackintosh Building between the 18th and the 22nd of March.

Stewart, Robert

Poster for the Master of Design degree show

GSAA/EPH/10/89
Item
[Apr 1983]

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

This poster advertised the work of graduating students from the Master of Design course which was part of The Glasgow School Of Art graduate degree show in 1983. The exhibition was held in the Mackintosh Building on The Glasgow School Of Art campus from the 10th to the 16th of December. The style of this poster is similar to that of a poster for the Master of Design fashion show which was designed by illustrator Ingeborg Smith and can be found under the reference number GSA/EPH/10/13.

Smith, Ingeborg

Poster for a lecture by Herman Hertzberger

GSAA/EPH/10/121
Item
[Jan 1975]

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

This poster advertised a lecture given by the German architect Herman Hertzberger. Hertzberger is widely considered to be one of the influences behind the Dutch Structuralist movement of the mid 20th century. The lecture was held in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre on The Glasgow School Of Art campus on the 20th of February 1975.

Stewart, Robert