The Glasgow Style Paintings and Works on Paper
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 300 paintings and works on paper created by key exponents of the Glasgow Style and their contemporaries. These date from the late 19th to the early 20th century. This collection contains oils, watercolours, gouaches, and pencil, pastel and ink drawings. There are designs for furniture, textiles and stained glass, and architectural studies and sketchbooks. The collection also includes posters and other lithographic prints, greetings cards, invitations, bookplates, postcards, books, bindings, photographs, programmes and archival material including manuscripts and letters. There is a large holding of works by Jessie Marion King and associated documentary material – over 190 items in total. In addition, the collection has 67 works by Talwin Morris, 16 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 11 by EA Taylor, nine by the Macdonald sisters and James Herbert McNair, six by George Logan and a further three works by Annie French. Other artists and designers represented include Jessie Newbery, George Walton, Dorothy Carleton Smythe, De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar and John Ednie. 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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