Glasgow School of Art: Archives & Collections

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

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

Cabbages in an Orchard

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

From The Magazine, April 1894. The long text by Mackintosh which accompanies this watercolour in The Magazine (reproduced in full in Billcliffe's catalogue) suggests that he had already encountered public hostility to his work, possibly even from fellow students, on the grounds of incomprehensibility.

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

The Building Committee of the Board of Governors of The Glasgow School of Art

NMC/0001
Item
1913-1914

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Portrait group. Inscribed on frame: "Mr. Charles. R. Mackintosh FRIBA The Architect/Col. R.J.Bennett V.D./Mr. David Barclay FRIBA/Sir Francis Powell, LLD, PRSW/Mr. John Munro FRIBA/Mr. Patrick S. Dunn - Convener/Councillor J. Mollison, MINA/ Mr. Hugh Reid DL/ Sir Wm Bilsland, Bart. LLD, DL/Sir John J. Burnet, RSA, FRIBA, LLD/Mr. John Henderson MA/Sir James Fleming - Chairman of Governors/Mr. John M. Groundwater - secretary/ Mr. Francis H. Newbery CAV OFF, INT, SBC, ARCA - Director, pinxit". When Newbery exhibited this group at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1913 it did not include the figure of Mackintosh. In 1914 he painted his large portrait of Mackintosh (collection: Scottish National Portrait Gallery) and his Building Committee portrait group was offered to the Board and accepted. When it was unveiled in 1914 it was seen that he had added Mackintosh's figure, a smaller version of his individual portrait, to the left of the group, and redated the whole canvas 1914. Painting cleaned and relined in 1963 by Mr Harry McLean who discovered the late addition of the figure of Mackintosh.

Newbery, Francis Henry

Diana

NMC/0268
Item
c1930s

Part of Art, Design and Architecture collection

Plaster sculpture.

Barr, James

Le Fort Mailly

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Slate Roofs

MC/G/20
Item
1924-1927

Part of Mackintosh Art, Design and Architecture Collection

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie

Papers of William R Hunter

DC 011
Collection
1896-1967

Collection includes:

Diary written while travelling on Keppie Scholarship, 1913-1914
Collection of 250 postcards of European cities, paintings, sculptures collected on tour, 1913-1914
12 ink sketches of Childe Ronald's Pilgrimage by TWYM (aka A.S. Boyd), n.d.
Exhibition catalogues
Illustrations

The collection also includes original illustrations drawn by A S Boyd (aka TWYM) and Stephen Reid, both noted Scottish illustrators.

Additional uncatalogued material includes

x 6 photographs
x1 GSA practical notes on materials for painting
x1 diploma for May Jackson
x1 diploma scroll for William Reid Hunter

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

Hunter, William R

Presscuttings book belonging to Archibald McGlashan, student at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

DC 010
Collection
1913-1959

Presscuttings book of reviews of exhibitions including those at the GSA Club, RSA and Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, 1913-1959.

McGlashan, Archibald A

Records of the Artist Teachers' Exhibition Society, Glasgow, Scotland

DC 007
Collection
1911-1916

Draft constitution and rules, c1910-1911
Notice of meeting to determine final constitution, c1910-1911
Catalogue for exhibition, c1910-1916
Catalogue for Third Annual Exhibition, 1914
Invite to Private View of Third Annual Exhibition, 1914
Invite to Third Annual Exhibition, 1914
Invite to Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1915
Reminder of Art Union sale, 1916

Dron, James Alexander

Records of the Glasgow School of Art Graduates Association, Glasgow, Scotland

DC 005
Collection
1966-1969

Minutes and correspondence of SAGA, 1966-1969
Cash book, 1968-1969
Receipts and cheques, 1969
Catalogue of the 1st Annual Exhibition, c1966

This material may contain sensitive information about individuals that is protected by the Data Protection Act. Until this material has been checked for sensitive information, it will not be available for researchers. Once this Data Protection work is complete the collection will be open for access, however any sensitive information will be closed and inaccessible for 75 years from the date of creation.

Glasgow School of Art Graduates Association

Records of the Scottish Society of Art Workers

DC 001
Collection
1898-1901

This collections contains:

A notebook containing the constitution and rules of the society signed by its members
Printed version of the constitution and rules, c1898
Minute book, 1898-1900
Letter from John Keppie to Fra. Newbery re: the Glasgow School of Art receiving a copy of the constitution and rules, 1901

Keppie, John