Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Margaret Macdonald's hair

NMC/1825
Item
c1890s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Long plait of dark auburn hair, said to be Margaret Macdonald's.

*Not available / given

Folio cover for designs for Glasgow School of Art

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Settle

NMC/0608
Item
c1900-1910

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Dark stained Glasgow style wooden settle. One of a pair.

*Not available / given

Portrait of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Mackintosh as an old man, hand on chin.

Hoppé, Emil Otto

Mackintosh exhibition board

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Wooden backing board for Windyhill Designs with Mackintosh's address and other exhibition and shipping labels.

*Not available / given

Portrait of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Mackintosh as an old man, wearing a cape and cap.

Hoppé, Emil Otto

Portrait of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Mackintosh as an old man, smoking a pipe.

Hoppé, Emil Otto

Portrait of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Margaret Macdonald with platted and braided hair.

T & R Annan & Sons Ltd

Portrait of James Herbert MacNair

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Herbert MacNair wearing floppy tie. Unknown creator, possibly Annan.

*Not available / given

Sample of Mackintosh upholstery fabric

DC 020/3C
Item
c1900-1986

Part of Examples of Mackintosh Fabric

Sample of Mackintosh upholstery fabric. It is possible that both design and fabric were purchased from Brown and Beveridge, Bath Street, Glasgow.

*Not available / given

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

Portrait of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Mackintosh as an old man, sitting side-on.

Ransford, William

Library stool

NMC/1866
Item
c1905

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Wooden A-frame stool with Mackintosh style wing motif cut out on seat.

*Not available / given

Settle

NMC/0607
Item
c1900-1910

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Dark stained Glasgow style wooden settle. One of a pair.

*Not available / given

Mackintosh-inspired student-made chair

NMC/1879
Item
c1990

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Light coloured wooden armchair with circular decorative cut-outs on the back splat and wings. Tapered arm rests on supports and a flat wooden seat.

*Not available / given

Photograph Album containing photographs of "The Immortals"- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and Frances Macdonald, Herbert MacNair, Jessie Keppie and others

Part of Papers of Jessie Keppie, artist and student of The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

These images show Charles Rennie Mackintosh and fellow Glasgow School of Art Students, Herbert MacNair, Frances Macdonald, Margaret Macdonald, Agnes Raeburn, Janet Aitken, Katherine Cameron and Jessie Keppie. Jessie Keppie's brother, John Keppie also appears in the photographs. John Keppie was a partner in Honeyman and Keppie, the architectural firm at which Mackintosh and Herbert McNair worked.

*Not available / given

Sample of Mackintosh upholstery fabric

DC 020/3A
Item
c1900-1986

Part of Examples of Mackintosh Fabric

Sample of Mackintosh upholstery fabric. It is possible that both design and fabric were purchased from Brown and Beveridge, Bath Street, Glasgow.

*Not available / given

Portrait of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Margaret Macdonald sitting in high back (dating from 1899). Creator unkown, though possible Annan.

*Not available / given

Wooden stool

NMC/1990
Item
c1900

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Small wooden stool in arts and crafts style, with cut out motif in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. At one time there were many examples in use within The Glasgow School of Art, but very few remain.

Portrait of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Portrait of Mackintosh as an old man, seated side-on, holding a pipe in his left hand.

Hoppé, Emil Otto

Exhibition labels

MC/A/21
Item
[c1910-1960]

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Identification labels removed from the backing boards of various (now lost) exhibition frames including 'Exhibition of British Architects', London, 1914 and 'Mackintosh Memorial Exhibition', McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 1933.

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Model of the Music Room, Haus eines Kunstfreundes (House for an Art Lover)

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

A 1:50 interior model of the music room, designed by Mackintosh for the Haus eines Kunstfreundes (House for Art Lover) competition in 1901, made by Angus Modelmakers Ltd, Glasgow in 1985.

Angus Modelmakers Ltd, Glasgow

Model of the Haus eines Kunstfreundes (House for an Art Lover)

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

A 3/32 inch:1 foot (3:384) scale model made by students of the Manchester University School of Architecture (under the auspices of Professor Thomas Howarth?).

*Not available / given

Model of the Glasgow School of Art

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

1/8": 1 foot scale Coloured balsa wood model of the Mackintosh Building on a wooden base. Made by former students of the Glasgow School of Art.

*Not available / given

Design for a School Diploma

NMC/1912
Item
c1900

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Design for a School Diploma. Front of mount labelled 'SILVER MEDAL. FOR SET.'

King, Jessie Marion

Interior of Hous'hill, Glasgow - the drawing room

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

The Drawing Room looking towards the Music Room.

Bedford Lemere & Co

Interior of Hous'hill, Glasgow - the music room

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

The music room looking towards the piano.

Bedford Lemere & Co

Interior with two chairs, fireplace and lampshade

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Beaten brass sconce

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Two candlesticks

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Owl screen

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Wall hanging clock

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Interior of Hous'hill, Glasgow - the blue bedroom

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

The blue bedroom looking towards the bed.

Bedford Lemere & Co

Mirror frame in lead

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Beaten silver pendant

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Front view facing south with turret

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Silver pendant depicting woman

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Bedford Lemere & Co

Diploma of Honour

MC/G/59B
Item
1894-1895

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Glasgow School of Art Club diploma.

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Original cover of Charles Rennie Mackintosh Willow Tea Rooms settle

DC 020/2
Item
c1904-1917

Part of Examples of Mackintosh Fabric

Green and brown striped horse-hair semicircular cover.

In the Summer of 2023, this item was conserved and a small sample (formerly referenced as DC 020/3B) was reattached by a student of Textile Conservation from the University of Glasgow.

Trimming of mauve linen

DC 020/1
Item
c1914

Part of Examples of Mackintosh Fabric

A fabric trimming from a cushion cover, embroidered before the First World War. The cover has pink roses and green foliage embroidered on authentic 'Mackintosh' mauve linen fabric.It is possible that both design and fabric were purchased from Brown and Beveridge, Bath Street, Glasgow.

*Not available / given

Book plate

NMC/0613
Item
c1912

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Ex libris book plate for Fred J.M. Christie; figures in landscape.

King, Jessie Marion

Model of Concert Hall, Glasgow International Exhibition

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

A 3/32 inch:1 foot (3:384) scale coloured balsa wood model made by students of the Manchester University School of Architecture (under the auspices of Professor Thomas Howarth?). This item is damaged and is awaiting conservation.

*Not available / given

Electric clock

NMC/1732
Item
c1910

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

A round and commercially available brass clock installed into the Board Room of the Mackintosh Building and linked to the electrical circuit of Mackintosh studio clocks introduced in 1909/10. The brass clock can be seen illustrated in the background of Francis Newbery's painting of the GSA Building Committee meeting in the Board Room which dates from 1909-1914.

*Not available / given