Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Papers of Jane Richards and Fiona Jean Paton, students of The Glasgow School of Art

DC 083
Collection
c1908-1980s

This collection relates to Jane Richards and her granddaughter Fiona Jean Paton who both studied at The Glasgow School of Art.

It includes:

An artist’s palette owned by Jane Richards, c1910
a small box of watercolour paints owned by Jane Richards, early 20th century
a portrait drawn by Jane Richards, c1908-1910
a photograph of Jane Richards, c1914-1918
a photograph of Jane Richards' husband in uniform, c1914-18
two watercolour landscapes by Jane Richards, 1907 and 1911
seven prints produced by The Dux Engraving Co Ltd, early 20th century
two portraits drawn by Robert Eadie, c1909
three sketchbooks for product design furniture by Fiona Jean Paton, early 1980s
eight photographs and eleven slides relating to product design furniture, early 1980s.

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

One item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014 and was conserved in 2018-19.

Richards, Jane

Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons

PC/013
Item
19th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018. All that remains is a fragment of a hand.

Original: This statue group was found in 1506 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome and immediately identified as the Laocoon described by Pliny the Elder as a masterpiece of the sculptors of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus around 40-30 BC. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents. In 1587 Giovanni Battista Armenini's treatise on painting and recommended all students to draw from the casts of the finest statues in Rome- 'the Laocoon, the Hercules, the Apollo, the Great Torso....' of the Belvedere. Listed in first catalogue as Greco-Roman and that the original is located in the Vatican. Original currently in the collection of the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy.

This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.

Material relating to Gerard V Murphy, former GSA student

DC 084
Collection
c1929-1943

A variety of drawings and graphic designs created by Gerard V. Murphy, a former student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s. The diverse subjects of his drawings include animals, plants, architecture, human anatomy and figures. A subfonds titled 'Teaching examples' features his teaching materials as an art teacher at schools, intended for printmaking techniques and pattern design education.

Most items have been marked with his name or student registration numbers, assuming they were created during his time as a student at GSA. The dominant materials in his works are pencil and watercolour, worked on cartridge paper.

Some of this material was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. Paper conservation was completed in 2019.

Murphy, Gerard V

Plaster cast of Lorenzo de' Medici

PC/040
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Original: Michelangelo, c1526-1534. Lorenzo de' Medici (01 Jan 1449-09 Apr 1492) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Original currently in the Medici Chapel in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy.

This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.

Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral) (Version 1)

PC/033A/v1
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral) (Version 1)

PC/033B/v1
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral) (Version 2)

PC/033A/v2
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral) (Version 2)

PC/033B/v2
Part
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Framed plaster portrait

NMC/1631
Item
19th century-20th century

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Wooden framed plaster relief portrait of a bearded man in profile with brown glaze. Bottom left corner has initials "J.R." or "R.J" and indecipherable signature above left shoulder. This item was damaged in the fire in GSA's Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014 and was conserved in 2018.

*Not available / given

Plaster cast of Mercury

PC/014
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Original: Greco-Roman attribution, shows Mercury God of merchandise and merchants, commonly identified with the Greek Hermes, fleet-footed messenger of the gods.

This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.

Plaster cast of Madonna of Bruges (Madonna and Child)

PC/041
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.

Figure of Mary with the infant Jesus. Original: Michelangelo, 1501-1504. Original currently in the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk, Bruges, Belgium.

This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.

Portrait of Sir Hector Clare Cameron

NMC/0047
Item
1925

Part of 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. Portrait of Sir Hector Clare Cameron (1843-1928), Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Glasgow. This is a study of the finished work held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.

Greiffenhagen, Maurice

Portrait of James Craig Annan

NMC/0002
Item
c1917

Part of 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. Portrait of the Glasgow photographer James Craig Annan, 1884-1945. Inscribed on frame: "James Craig Annan 1884-1945 by Francis H. Newbery, Director GSA, 1885-1917".

Newbery, Francis Henry

Hugh Adam Crawford

NMC/0738
Item
c1930s-1940s

Part of 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. Self portrait. Two of Hugh Adam Crawford's self portraits were exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1951 and 1960. Another earlier self portrait is also owned by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Crawford, Hugh Adam

Portrait of Hugh Ferguson

NMC/0818
Item
1962

Part of 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. Portrait of architect-lecturer Hugh Ferguson against a backdrop of the Glasgow School of Art.

Laurie, John

Portrait of Alexander McGibbon

NMC/0008
Item
1924

Part of 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. Portrait of Glasgow architect Alexander McGibbon. Inscribed above: Alexander McGibbon A.R.I.B.A.

Greiffenhagen, Maurice

Portrait of Noel (Slaney)

NMC/1489
Item
1943

Part of 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. Inscribed verso: "Member of the Fianna na h'Alba Club run by Seamus MacNeill (piper)".

Annand, Louise

Portrait of John Keppie

NMC/0007
Item
1917

Part of 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. Portrait of Glasgow architect, John Keppie. Signed lower left: To my friend John Keppie/Maurice Greiffenhagen 1917.

Greiffenhagen, Maurice

Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral)

PC/033B
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.

Original: Portal figures from Chartres Cathedral. The central tympanum illustrates the Apocalypse with a central Christ surrounded by twenty-four Elders.

Plaster cast of Elders of the Apocalypse (Royal Portal Chatres Cathedral)

PC/033A
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.

Original: Portal figures from Chartres Cathedral. The central tympanum illustrates the Apocalypse with a central Christ surrounded by twenty-four Elders.

Self portrait

NMC/0453
Item
c1964

Part of 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. 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

Self portrait

NMC/1023
Item
1944

Part of 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. Self portrait of the artist with light brown hair in green sweater. Prize winner of Guthrie Prize.

Oliver, Cordelia

Male portrait

NMC/0467
Item
c1940s-1950s

Part of 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. Self-portrait, or portrait of artist's brother Henry Y. Alison.

Alison, David

Portrait of Hugh Adam Crawford

NMC/1024
Item
c1945

Part of 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. Portrait of Hugh Adam Crawford, in white tunic, bearded.

Oliver, Cordelia

Plaster cast of angel

PC/201
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Small statue of angel, original wings lost.

*Not available / given

William Oliphant Hutchison

NMC/0093
Item
1961

Part of 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. Self-portrait of former Glasgow School of Art director.

Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant

A Glasgow Bookman - Adam L Gowans Esq

NMC/0017
Item
1951

Part of 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. Portrait of former Glasgow School of Art librarian.

Dodd, Phyllis

Plaster cast of Queen

PC/053
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

Body of a Queen with the head of a King.

This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.

William Drummond Bone

NMC/0061
Item
1948

Part of 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. Self portrait of Glasgow artist William Drummond Bone.

Bone, William Drummond

Portrait of Douglas Percy Bliss

NMC/0016
Item
1963

Part of 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. Portrait of former Glasgow School of Art director.

Dodd, Phyllis

Sir John Richmond

NMC/0094
Item
1939

Part of 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. Portrait of former honoury president of Glasgow School of Art.

Hutchison, Sir William Oliphant

Female portrait

NMC/0466
Item
1925

Part of 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. Female portrait, possibly the artist's sister Violet.

Anderson, Daisy McGlashan

Plaster cast of Berlin Adorante

PC/020
Item
Mid 19th century-early 20th century

Part of Plaster Casts

This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.

Original: Also know as 'Youth Supplian' or 'Praying Boy'.

Sculptured head

NMC/0263
Item
1970s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

This item was badly damaged in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. It was assessed by a conservator but no conservation work was deemed possible.

Leckie, Alexander

Portrait of Mrs Scott

NMC/0035
Item
1925

Part of 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. Portrait of a lady.

Wilson, David Forrester

Daisy Anderson

NMC/0473
Item
c1930s-1940s

Part of 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. Portrait of artist Daisy Anderson.

Alison, David

Portrait of Ancell Stronach

NMC/0051
Item
c1920s

Part of 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. Portrait of the artist Ancell Stronach.

Law, Andrew

Portrait of a young girl

NMC/0494
Item
1949

Part of 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. Portrait of a young girl.

Alison, David

Portrait of William Drummond Bone

NMC/1491
Item
1946

Part of 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.

Annand, Louise

Portrait of a man in a frock coat

NMC/0048
Item
19th Century

Part of 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. Male portrait.

*Not available / given

Margaret Reynolds

NMC/0976
Item
1925

Part of 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. Sitter was donor's late husband's aunt.

Crawford, Hugh Adam

Just One More Time Please!

NMC/0739
Item
c1970

Part of 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. Portrait of artist's mother and father at the piano.

Ballantine, Lewis Nisbet