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Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Inside front cover is inscribed "This is one for London, March 2015". Includes sketches of figures, and landscapes.
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London Notebook and Travel Journal
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Inside front cover is inscribed "This is one for London, March 2015". Includes sketches of figures, and landscapes.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketches, drawings, paintings, collage, poems and notes. Includes entries relating to visit to Rijksmuesum, Amsterdam.
Cosgrove, James
Welcome [sic] Trust Visit, 2014 (and other places, Malaga, Faro)
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketches, drawings, and notes, including cityscapes and landscapes.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketches, drawings, paintings, and poetry from travels around Mexico City.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Poem sent from Mexico to Janet Cosgrove.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketches from travel in Paris and London.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Painting including 4 standing figures, an aeroplane, and a dog. "2" written on the reverse.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Painting including the head and torso of a figure, a seated dog, and two birds. "3" written on reverse.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Painting including three figures. "4" written on the reverse.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Painting including 5 figures, boats and animals. "5" written on the reverse.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Small-scale painting of the head of a man surrounded by flying birds. With the words "Tambien de Borricas ay mascaras literatos".
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Small scale painting of man and child.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Small scale painting of head and shoulders of a person in front of hills and buildings.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Travel journal, including sketches, drawings, paintings and notes, mixed media collages, and photographs.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketches of landscapes, figures and still lives. Some portraits and representations of astrological symbols. Includes design for and exhibition of the Estate House Buildings of Govan, possibly to be shown at the Centre for Art and Heritage at the HOuse for an Art Lover.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketchbook started in Paris, includes sketches of 'One Minute Sculptures' by Erwin Wurm. Also, landscape sketches of Wester Ross.
Cosgrove, James
Arizona Series Letter from America
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Collaged painting of the head and shoulders of a man with animal.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketches relating to the architecture and culture in Arizona. Back cover inscribed: "Jimmy Cosgrove. Paris October 1993/ Arizona March 2002"
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Collaged painting of street scene.
Cosgrove, James
Arizona Series Shadowman Number 26
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Collaged painting of the head and shoulders of a man with weathervane. Signed "COSGROVE".
Cosgrove, James
Articles, reviews and features
Typed draft copies and email correspondence of around 22 articles of 800-3000 word length, by Clare Henry for The Scotsman, The Herald and The Financial Times, January-December 2007. During this period Henry worked between the UK and the USA with the majority of articles featuring exhibitions and events in New York and the USA. Articles also written for Art Newspaper. Other paper work includes handwritten notes and email correspondence.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive
Henry, Clare
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
10 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, portraits and abstracts.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
25 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, one portrait.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
25 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, still life, portraits and abstracts.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Drawings and paintings, including landscapes and figurative representations.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
25 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, portraits, and abstracts.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
25 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, still life, portraits and abstracts.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
15 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, portraits and abstracts.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Drawings and paintings, including landscapes, still lives, and sketches.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Illustrations, sketches, collage, including some loose drawings stored in the back pocket. Includes landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, and some writing about the weather.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
25 small paintings mounted on card. Landscapes, portraits and abstracts.
Cosgrove, James
One print from 'Abstract Language' (The Philadelphia Series)
One of eight screenprints in a folder inspired by artists and architects who spent their whole lives thinking about squares, rectangles and straight lines: C R Mackintosh, Malevich, Modrian, Lloyd Wright, Newman, Stella, Martin and Halley.
Print 'A' inspired by C R Mackintosh. The screenprints are boxed with an introductory page.
Kilgour, Scott
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for The Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written and typed draft copies of around 150 articles of 500-1500 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald, January-December 1997, with Monday weekly articles and a weekend feature art guide feature, including regular book reviews and a new ‘Picture of the week’ feature. Articles also written for Galleries Magazine, International Magazine, Chelsea Arts Club magazine, AN Newsletter, Financial Times and Interiors Magazine covering visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and increasingly in other places in Scotland such as St Andrews, Aberdeen, Stirling, Dumfries and Aberfoyle. Exhibitions in London, Venice and Berlin also feature including Art Fair 97 London.
A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Compass Gallery, Gatehouse Gallery Glasgow, Fly, Duke Street Glasgow. The reviews also cover private galleries: Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh, Talbot Rice, Billcliffe Fine Art, Nancy Smillie Gallery, Fiction Gallery Glasgow, Art Exposure Glasgow and Streetlevel Glasgow, as well as publicly funded galleries: McLellan Galleries, Tramway, Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), Burrell Collection Glasgow, National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy and artist led galleries Collective Edinburgh and Transmission.
During this period Henry gives more context and opinion on Sir William Burrell's will, Glasgow City Council, Norway Art & Architecture, Kelvingrove redevelopment, Julian Spalding, Arran Ross, Fergusson Award Winner Perth, Christine Borland nominated for Tate Turner Prize, Baltic Flour Mill Gateshead and Princes Diana's death. The exhibitions covered are solo shows, David Nash, Margot Sandeman, Calum Colvin, Roman Singer, Sophie Macpherson, Bill Viola, Jacqueline Donachie, John Houston, Sunil Gawde, Barbara Rae and Simon Starling.
Group shows include Animal The Lost Ark, CCA, Rolling Devolution, Crawford Centre St Andrews, the Vigorous Imagination Ten Years On, New Contemporaries, CCA Glasgow and Sensation, Royal Academy London, Saatchi Collection. Edinburgh Festival is covered in detail as well as Mayfest and The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show.
Profiles on Julie Roberts, Alan Davie, Bruce McLean, Johnny Dumfries, Joan Sommerville and Tim Mara Obituary. Also included are catalogue essays for Philip Hughes, Francis Kyle Gallery, Marj Bond, Thackary Gallery London, Contemporary Scottish Art, Albermarle Gallery London, Graham Hillier, Francis Kyle London, George Devlin, Billcliffe Fine Art Glasgow and other paper work includes correspondence to Harry Reid, Keith Bruce, Donald Dewar and The Glasgow School of Art, press releases and invoices for work.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Henry, Clare
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for The Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written and typed draft copies of around 225 articles of 500-1500 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald, January-December 1996 with Monday weekly articles and a weekend feature art guide feature, including a short ‘Studio’ feature and regular book reviews. Articles also written for Art Extra covering visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Kirkcudbright, Aberdeen, Stirling, Aberfoyle, Castlemilk, Dumfries, Dunfermline and Aberfoyle. Exhibitions in London, Venice, Geneva and New York also feature.
A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Compass Gallery, Gatehouse Gallery Glasgow. The reviews also cover private galleries: Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh, Talbot Rice, Billcliffe Fine Art, Nancy Smillie Gallery and Streetlevel Glasgow, as well as publicly funded galleries: Mclellan Galleries, Tramway, Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), Burrell Collection Glasgow, National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, and artist led galleries Collective Edinburgh and Transmission.
During this period Henry gives more context and opinion on, for example: the new Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Ian Cook new Glasgow Royal Concert Hall murals, Borrowed Light Public Art Project, row over Mackintosh show at McLellan Galleries, the opening of the new House for an Art Lover, Douglas Gordon wins Turner Prize, Copenhagen 1996 City of Culture and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in New York. The exhibitions covered are solo shows: Dalziel & Scullion, Ross Sinclair, Alberto Giacometti, George Wyllie, Callum Innes, Willie Rodger, Martin Parr, Annette Heyer, Jimmy Boyle, Victoria Morton and Andy Goldsworthy.
Group shows include British Art Show and Film Culture at Tramway. Edinburgh Festival is covered in detail as well as Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow International festival of design and Manifesto International Festival of Design. Profiles on Earl Haig, Bridget Riley, Don and Eleanor Taffner. Also includes obituaries for Helen Chadwick and David Donaldson.
Also included are catalogue essays for Highland Printmakers Inverness, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, and other paperwork includes notes on pictures used and correspondence to Jackie McGlone at Arts Extra, Keith Bruce and Bob Jeffery at The Herald, with Caledonian Newspapers, Sandy Moffat and Sam Ainsley at The Glasgow School of Art plus invitations to press openings in Venice.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Henry, Clare
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written and typed draft copies of around 275 articles of 500-1500 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald January-December 1995, with Monday weekly articles and a weekend feature art guide feature, including a continuing series ‘My First Picture’ and ‘Collectors’ and a new ‘Studio’ feature and several book reviews. Articles also written for Art Newspaper and Galleries Magazine covering visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Kirkcudbright, Aberdeen, Stirling, Aberfoyle and Castlemilk.
A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Main Fine Arts, Gatehouse Gallery Glasgow. The reviews also cover galleries; Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh, Talbot Rice, Billcliffe Fine Art, Nancy Smillie Gallery, Streetlevel Glasgow, Compass Gallery, McLellan Galleries, Tramway, Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), Burrell Collection Glasgow, National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy and artist led galleries Collective Edinburgh and Transmission.
During this period Henry gives more context and opinion on: Jock McFadyen purchase by Glasgow Museum of Modern Art under Julian Spalding, Winner of Lord Provost prize is Jenny Saville and Jacqueline Donachie is Young Artist Winner of American Fulbright Award, Visual Arts Forum and Glasgow´s £100,000 Visual Art Fund, Tramway Glasgow, Concert Hall Glasgow Murals by Steven Campbell, Peter Howson, Ken Currie and Adrian Wiszniewski, Peter Howson’s designs for Don Giovanni by Scottish Opera, Glasgow Festival of Visual Arts 1996 launch and Deyan Sudjic appointed director of Glasgow 1999 year of design.
The exhibitions covered are solo shows by Callum Innes, Douglas Gordon, Janine Antoni, Jack Vettriano, Stuart Duffin and Marina Abramovic. Group shows reviews include Decade, Street Level Glasgow, In Stereo, Transmission Gallery Glasgow and Persistence of Painting, CCA Glasgow. Mayfest and Edinburgh Festival are also covered in detail as well as Celtic Connections and Fotofeis. Degree shows at Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee are covered. Catalogue essay for Bet Low and other paper work includes notes on pictures used and correspondence to Keith Bruce, Jackie McGlone and Ron Anderson at The Herald.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Henry, Clare
Line Drawings/ Landscape/ Brooches
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Further title, 'Odds and Ends'. Sketches, printed and annotated poems, and stories. Designs of Landscape Brooches. Notes at the back of sketchbook regarding the history of the House for an Art Lover.
Cosgrove, James
Royal College of Art Sketchbook
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
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketchbook containing c. 100 paintings. Includes reproductions and over-paintings, collages, and poems.
Cosgrove, James
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for The Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written and typed draft copies of around 140 articles of 500-1500 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald, January-December 1992, with weekly Monday, Friday and some weekend features including a new feature ‘Herald Weekend Out’. Articles also written for Art Review, Conservation Management, Harpers & Queen and Galleries Magazine covering visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Kilmarnock, St Andrews, Kirkcudbright, Ayr, Aberdeen, Wick and Kinross. During the year Henry also covers art in Cambridge, Egypt, Amsterdam.
Some reviews focus on exhibitions in London at, for example, Flying Colours Gallery, Anderson O’Day Gallery, Mercury Gallery London, ICA London, Victoria Miro London, Jackson Gallery London, Duncan Miller Fine Arts London. A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Main Fine Arts Studio Gallery Gibson Street, New 57 Gallery, 369 Gallery, Aquarium Glasgow, JD Kelly Gallery, Gatehouse Gallery Glasgow. The reviews also cover galleries: The Third Eye Centre, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh, Compass Gallery, Mercury Gallery and Talbot Rice, Graeme Murray Fine Art, Shore Gallery Leith, Nancy Smillie Gallery, Streetlevel Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Tramway, Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, People’s Palace Glasgow and Hunterian Gallery Glasgow and artist led galleries WASPS, Collective Edinburgh, Project Ability and Transmission. During this period Henry gives more context and opinion on the failed Glasgow bid for Capital of Art 1996, restructure of Glasgow Museums under Julian Spalding, Scottish Art Schools, Pavel Buchler appointment as Head of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art, a series on Scottish Art in Private Collections.
Other feature and perspective pieces include: Allan Davie, Richard Demarco appointment as Professor at Kingston Polytechnic London, the theft of Lowry V.E Day painting from Kelvingrove, Tony Jones former director of The Glasgow School of Art appointment at Royal College London, The Burrell Collection Glasgow opening, British American Arts Association conference, Jenny Geddes Memorial by Merlyn Smith at St Giles Edinburgh, a profile on William Hardie, House for an Art Lover by Charles Rennie Mackintosh opening. Obituaries on Francis Bacon, Jon Schueler and Alastair Smart. The exhibitions covered are solo shows, by artists Derek Jarman, Mario Rossi, Joan Eardley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Elspeth Lamb, William Barns Graham, Ken Currie, Narelle Jubelin, Callum Innes, Alan Ramsay, Anne Redpath, Tony Cragg, Maud Sulter and group shows for The Glasgow School of Art Textiles with Barbara Santos Shaw and Lux Europa by Isabelle Vasseur. Mayfest and the Edinburgh Festival are covered in detail.
Notes on Royal College of Art Degree show. are included, as well as correspondence regarding Herald Art Collection to Harry Reid, correspondence with Caroline Ross, a research questionnaire on art criticism by Goldsmiths undergraduate student, correspondence regarding interview with Jack Lang in Paris, business card collection correspondence. Includes an invitation to Clare Henry’s Birthday, news cuttings of letters to paper on Clare Henry's reviews and copies of Clare Henry’s entry in Debrett’s People of Today and review of her selections in A Critics Choice at Cooling Gallery London. Also included are catalogue essay commissions for RAAB Gallery London Phil Braham, Robbie Duff-Scott, Tony Jones for Chelsea Arts Club.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Henry, Clare
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for The Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written and typed draft copies of around 100 articles of 500-1500 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald, January-December 1991 with weekly Monday, Friday and some weekend features. Articles also written for Art Review, Time Out, Museums Journal, Art Line, Portfolio and Galleries Magazine covering visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stornoway, St Andrews, Kirkcudbright, Ayr and Scottish regions. During the year Henry also covers art in Budapest, Rome and Germany.
Some reviews focus on reviews of exhibitions in London at Scottish Gallery London, Marlborough Fine Art London, Royal Academy, Serpentine, Saatchi Gallery, Flowers, Art 91 and Tate. A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Main Fine Arts Studio Gallery Gibson Street, New 57 Gallery, 369 Gallery, Glasgow’s Glasgow, ASH Gallery Edinburgh, JD Kelly Gallery, Barbizon Gallery Glasgow. The reviews also cover galleries: The Third Eye Centre, Compass Gallery, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh, Mercury Gallery, Talbot Rice, Graeme Murray Fine Art and Streetlevel Glasgow, McLellan Galleries, Tramway, Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, People’s Palace Glasgow and Hunterian Gallery Glasgow and artist led galleries: WASPS, Collective Edinburgh, Project Ability and Transmission.
During this period Henry gives more context and opinion facts and figures on Glasgow after 1990 Capital of Culture and its bid for Capital of Art 1996. Other feature and perspective pieces include: the closure of Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Director of Visual Arts Glasgow post, Julian Spalding acquisition for new Art for Kelvingrove, Tribal Shields, Knoedler Gallery London, an open letter to SAC director regarding 369 Gallery Edinburgh closure, WASPS closure rumours, Scottish Visual Arts Crisis and Scottish Arts Council, Resignation of The Glasgow School of Art Director John Whiteman, Third Eye Centre bankruptcy, Glasgow Milestones.
The exhibitions covered are solo shows, by artists June Redfern, The Boyle Family, Stanley Spencer, Elspeth Lamb, George Wyllie, Hamish Macdonald, Adrian Wiszniewski, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jo Spence, Joyce Cairns, Ken Currie, Anthony Caro, Cathie Wilkes, Peter Howson and David Mach and group shows for Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow Group Points East, New Beginnings Season and Scottish Arts Council touring bus. Mayfest, the Edinburgh Festival, Windfall and New Beginnings Season are covered in detail. Also includes: correspondence and delegate information for Points East conference Glasgow, National Art Collections Fund Saved for Scotland exhibition press information, Glasgow 1990 Statistics Fact Sheet, British School in Rome Visit, Scottish Tourist Board strategy planning, New Art in Scotland exhibition planning and selection minutes and notes, invitation to the wedding of Angela Wrapson and George Kerevan, correspondence with Robert Johnston, notes from Chelsea Arts Club debate on Art as Goods or Ideas, correspondence with Chelsea Art Club, correspondence from Mark Fisher MP.
Also included are catalogue essay commissions for David Toner at Gatehouse Gallery and Chelsea Arts Club Centenary.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Henry, Clare
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Sketchbook, inside cover reads 'EGYPT Luxor - October 12 1990 via London October 11. Sketches, text and tickets. Original copy.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Loose photocopies of pages from the Egypt 1990 notebook.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Contains sketches, notes and stories, including writing on airports. Some pages headed 'Las Fallas, Valencia, March 2005' and 'Route 66'. Includes sketches for a landscape series.
Cosgrove, James
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Painting depicting two human heads, and various floating objects on a background of abstract shapes.
Cosgrove, James
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for The Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written draft copies of around 110 articles of 500-1100 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald, January-December 1989 with weekly Monday and Friday features, Art Review, Time Out, World of Interiors, ALBA, Galleries Magazine and Ikebana Ryussei Magazine Japan covering visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee and Scottish regions.
During the year Henry also covers art in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Madrid. Some reviews focus on exhibitions in London at Serpentine Gallery and Tate London. A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Main Fine Arts Studio Gallery Gibson Street, New 57 Gallery, 369 Gallery, Scotrail Exhibition Centre and JD Kelly Gallery, including a feature on the opening of Barbizon Gallery Glasgow.
The reviews also cover galleries: The Third Eye Centre, Compass Gallery Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh (also referred to as Scottish Arts Council Gallery), Mercury Gallery and Talbot Rice, Graeme Murray Fine Art and the opening of Streetlevel Glasgow, Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, People’s Palace Glasgow and Hunterian Gallery Glasgow and artist led galleries WASPS, Collective Edinburgh and Transmission.
During this period Henry gives more context and opinion on the condition of funding, marketing, government policy and Glasgow’s Galleries in the lead up to Glasgow Capital of Culture 1990. Other feature and perspective pieces include, the cancellation of the Vienna 1960 exhibition by National Galleries of Scotland, the takeover row, funding and leadership of the National Galleries of Scotland, the sale of El Greco by National Gallery of Scotland, the wedding of Peter Howson and Terry Cullen, Soviet Season in Glasgow, Glasgow 1990 Build Up, Graeme Murray Fine Art at Amsterdam Kunstrai with Ian Hamilton Findlay and obituaries for Salvador Dali and William Barns Graham.
The exhibitions covered are solo shows, by artists Alf Lohr, Doug Cocker, Anthony Gormley, Andy Goldsworthy, Andy Warhol and Peter Howson and group shows for Royal Glasgow Institute.
Mayfest and the Edinburgh Festival and problems with funding are covered in detail, as is Soviet Season in Glasgow. Some correspondence proposing future articles with Ray Gard, Arnold Kemp from The Glasgow Herald and Time Out Sarah Kent.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Henry, Clare
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Inscribed 'Jimmy Cosgrove Amsterdam, April 1988. Ken Mitchell, Tom Chambers'. Also entitled "A book of dreams" on the first page. Sketches of abstract figures and animals. Some mythological and biblical references.
Cosgrove, James
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for The Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written draft copies of around 170 articles of 350-1100 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald, January-December 1986, Art Review, and her first for The Guardian from August 1986 for visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Milngavie, Peeblesshire and St Andrews. The Guardian listings focus on reviews of exhibitions in London at The Royal Academy and Serpentine.
A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Main Fine Arts Studio Gallery Gibson Street, New 57 Gallery, 369 Gallery, Artspace Aberdeen, Compass Gallery and JD Kelly Gallery as well as a review for the closing of Corners Gallery Glasgow and the 70th Birthday of Cyril Gerber. The reviews also cover private galleries: The Third Eye Centre, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh (also referred to as Scottish Arts Council Gallery), Mercury Gallery and Talbot Rice, as well as publicly funded galleries: Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Hunterian Gallery Glasgow.
There are also reviews for offsite projects at Cramond Sculpture Park Edinburgh and Saltire House Edinburgh. The exhibitions covered are solo shows, by artists such as Alfred Loos, John Bellany and Peter Wilson. The Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate and Masters Degree shows are also reviewed alongside several reviews for Mayfest Festival Glasgow and the Edinburgh Festival.
This file also includes longer feature and perspective articles for Art Review and her research for STV when she visited Canada at the invite of Canada Council to Vancouver to Calgary/Ottawa/Toronto/Montreal and New York. Some personal correspondence in also included from Bet Low.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Aug Edinburgh Festival, Artists at Work
Henry, Clare
Some Cranbrook Notes (Michigan)
Part of Papers of James Cosgrove
Journal entries and recounts of visit to Cranbrook College, Washington, and Detroit. Includes live commentary of the Cranbrook College Fashion Show.
Cosgrove, James
Articles, reviews and features
Articles written for The Glasgow Herald unless otherwise stated.
Hand written draft copies of around 190 articles of 250-1000 word length, by Clare Henry for The Glasgow Herald, January-December 1985, relating to visual art exhibitions in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Milngavie, Peeblesshire and St Andrews. Also including some reviews of exhibitions in London at The Royal Academy and Serpentine.
A number of the Scottish reviews are for exhibitions at former galleries: Main Fine Arts Studio Gallery Gibson Street, Corners Gallery Glasgow, New 57 Gallery, 369 Gallery, Artspace Aberdeen and JD Kelly Gallery, and organisations: Fine Art Society Glasgow, Fine Art Society Edinburgh and Group 81. The reviews cover private galleries: The Third Eye Centre, Compass Gallery, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Fruitmarket Edinburgh (also referred to as Scottish Arts Council Gallery), Mercury Gallery and Talbot Rice, as well as publicly funded galleries: Kelvingrove (also known as Glasgow Art Gallery), National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Paisley Museum and Hunterian Gallery Glasgow.
There are also reviews for offsite projects at Cramond Sculpture Park Edinburgh and Saltire House Edinburgh. The exhibitions covered are solo shows, by artists such as June Redfern, Annie Leibovitz and Jacki Parry. Key group exhibitions include New Image Glasgow at The Third Eye Centre featuring Steven Campbell, Ken Currie, Peter Howson, Mario Rossi, Stephen Barclay and others as part of the Hungarian Arts in Glasgow Season and annual exhibitions of painting and printmaking at Royal Scottish Academy. The Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate and Masters Degree shows are also reviewed alongside several reviews for Mayfest Festival Glasgow.
This file also includes longer feature and perspective articles on: Renoir Retrospective, Bruce McLean in London, Scottish Arts Council Collection on Sale and the Turner Prize win by Howard Hodgkin. Also includes copies of essays by Gerald Laing on Siaka Stevens.
[i]Articles written in this year which are not present in the archive:
Henry, Clare