Modern and Contemporary Scottish Prints, Drawings and Watercolours 1945-2000
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of Modern and Contemporary Scottish Prints, Drawings and Watercolours that date from 1945 to 2000. Key artists represented in these holdings include John Bellany, Joan Eardley, Alasdair Gray, Bet Low and Elizabeth Blackadder. This collection includes watercolours and drawings on paper and examples of printing techniques on paper including digital prints, screen-prints, etchings, lithographs, linocuts, woodcuts and engravings. The subjects of these objects vary from abstract compositions to depictions of people, objects or places. There is a significant body of work on paper by Alasdair Gray which was commissioned in the 1970’s for Glasgow Museums. Titled ‘City Recorder’ this series of work is an important cross section of artists, poets, writers, politicians, local authority workers, cultural institutions and businesses across the city from that time. In the 1980s and early 1990’s works on paper by the New Glasgow Boys’, represented by Peter Howson, Ken Currie, Adrian Wiszniewski and Steven Campbell were also collected including the notable series - 'Saracen Heads' (1987) by Peter Howson. The collection also includes print portfolios like The Scottish Bestiary Portfolio - 20 prints by seven Scottish artists illustrating the writing in poetry and prose of George Mackay Brown. Published 1986 by Charles Booth-Clibborn under his imprint The Paragon Press – and acquisitions of portfolios from both Glasgow Print Studio and Edinburgh Printmakers with notable artists working in print in the late 20th Century.
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