Talwin Morris
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 80 works by the Glasgow Style designer Talwin Morris, together with a further 16 works by artists known as ‘The Four’, which date from 1884–1946. This collection was gifted to Glasgow Museums by Talwin Morris’s widow between 1939 and 1946. This unparalleled collection contains works on paper, including architectural and design drawings. It also has repoussé metalwork and material samples, furniture, textiles, photographs, sketchbooks, a manuscript and a number of books bound with covers designed by Morris. The collection encompasses works by Morris’s close friends Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald, Frances Macdonald and James Herbert McNair, known collectively as ‘The Four’. Talwin Morris (1865–1911) was art director of Glasgow publishers Blackie & Sons from about 1894. His distinctive book cover designs helped disseminate the Glasgow Style to an international audience.
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