The Glasgow Style Metalwork
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 100 items of metalwork made or designed by artist craftspeople and designers associated with the Glasgow Style. These date from the late 19th to the early 20th century. This collection contains items made from precious and non-precious metals. These include decorative panels, clocks, mirrors, picture frames, jewellery, candlesticks, sconces, light fittings, hearth fittings, medals and badges. Other items range from toilet sets and alms dishes to single examples of objects, such as a cup and cover, a planter, a casket and a ewer and basin. The main focus of the collection is repoussé metals, silver and enamelwork. It also contains wrought work, castings, chasing and wirework. Designers and makers represented in this collection include Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Peter Wylie Davidson, De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar, Frances and Margaret Macdonald, Jessie Marion King, Marion Henderson Wilson, Margaret Gilmour, Talwin Morris and George Walton. Many of these artists were pupils or teachers in the Glasgow School of Art metalworking studios, which were internationally recognized. The Glasgow Style was an art and design movement based in Glasgow from about 1890 to 1920. It achieved European recognition for its use of strong clean abstract forms, shapes and lines.
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