Alasdair Gray Drawings from the 1950s and 60s
The Scottish Gallery 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ Tel 0131 558 1200 Email mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
Alasdair Gray Drawings from the 1950s and 60s 6 - 30 April 2011
Some of these drawings were made during Alasdair Gray’s years at Glasgow School of Art in the 1950s and the rest thereafter up to the mid 1960s. A number of them were drawn directly on to the pages of a large accounting ledger to which the artist added a good number more of his drawings by pasting them on to the sheets of ledger paper. At one point some time ago the collection of drawings was sold to a private collector and some years later it arrived at our gallery; giving us the opportunity to mount the present exhibition. The drawings are of Alasdair Gray’s family, friends and fellow artists. They are an historical record of time and a generation and are evocative of their period and insightful of the characters of the subjects, which are wonderfully expressed and delineated by a major artist and literary figure of the post war era. Ewan Mundy
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Front cover: Rae Fisher c.1961 black ink & blue ball point on paper cms
Torso black ink cut out & laid on a sheet of ledger paper 45.7 x 35.6 cms
Inge, 'Sunday 25th August 1963, My Studio' black ink & washes on ledger paper 41.3 x 59.7 cms
Above: Alan Fletcher's Father at the Stove with Douglas Abercrombie and the Artist charcoal on paper 55.9 x 38.1 cms Below: Glasgow School of Art, Miss Alex Dick’s Drawing Class blue ball point pen on paper laid on ledger paper 54.6 x 41.9 cms
Woman Smoking blue ball point pen on ledger paper 53.3 x 41.9 cms
Above: Inge Seated on the Floor (with cigarette) black ink on brown paper laid on ledger paper 31.8 x 51.4 cms Below: Steve Gill in the St Columba’s Workshop, Whiting Bay, Arran black ink on green paper laid on ledger paper 41.9 x 50.8 cms
Hugh McBain, Satirist (drawn at the Festival Late Nightclub) ink & gouache on board 55.9 x 38.1 cms
Painting on an Easel (of Model and Mirror) black ink on pink paper laid on ledger paper 55.9 x 38.1 cms
Inge Eating, '2nd December 1962, Sunday, very late' blue ball point pen on pink paper laid on ledger paper 55.9 x 38.7 cms
Mike Gill, Standing with tumbler and cigarette black ink on brown paper laid on ledger paper 54.6 x 38.1 cms
Inge Lying in a Chair with Mug black ink on blue paper laid on ledger paper 38 x 52 cms
Inge with Pony Tail black ink on brown paper laid on ledger paper 55.9 x 35.6 cms
Inge, Lying Down black ball point pen and red wash on paper laid on ledger paper 26.7 x 55.2 cms
Carole Gibbons’s Mother Posed Standing c.1957 blue ball point pen on paper laid on ledger paper 55.9 x 36.8 cms
Above: Inge and Andrew 1963 black ball point pen on a sheet of ledger paper 41.9 x 62.2 cms Below: Carole Gibbons and Douglas Abercrombie c.1959 blue ball point pen on paper laid on ledger paper 42 x 54.5 cms
Bill Skinner pencil & black ink on pink paper laid on ledger paper 58.4 x 41.9 cms
Price List
Rae Fisher c.1961 black ink & blue ball point on paper laid on ledger paper 55.9 x 38.1 cms
£1,250
Torso black ink cut out & laid on a sheet of ledger paper 45.7 x 35.6 cms
£450
Inge, 'Sunday 25th August 1963, My Studio' black ink & washes on ledger paper 41.3 x 59.7 cms
£1,450
Alan Fletcher's Father at the Stove with Douglas Abercrombie and the Artist charcoal on paper 55.9 x 38.1 cms
£750
Glasgow School of Art, Miss Alex Dick's Drawing Class blue ball point pen on paper laid on ledger paper, 54.6 x 41.9 cms
£750
Woman Smoking blue ball point pen on ledger paper 53.3 x 41.9 cms
£725
Inge Seated on the Floor (with cigarette) black ink on brown paper laid on ledger paper, 31.8 x 51.4 cms
£925
Steve Gill in the St Columba's Workshop, Whiting Bay, Arran black ink on green paper laid on ledger paper, 41.9 x 50.8 cms £1,450 Hugh McBain, Satirist (drawn at the Festival Late Nightclub) ink & gouache on board 55.9 x 38.1 cms
£1,250
Painting on an Easel (of Model and Mirror) black ink on pink paper laid on ledger paper, 55.9 x 38.1 cms
£550
Inge Eating, '2nd December 1962, Sunday, very late' blue ball point pen on pink paper laid on ledger paper 55.9 x 38.7 cms
£925
Mike Gill, Standing with tumbler and cigarette black ink on brown paper laid on ledger paper 54.6 x 38.1 cms
£950
Inge Lying in a Chair with Mug black ink on blue paper laid on ledger paper, 38 x 52 cms
£1,650
Inge with Pony Tail black ink on brown paper laid on ledger paper 55.9 x 35.6 cms
£1,250
Inge, Lying Down black ball point pen and red wash on paper laid on ledger paper 26.7 x 55.2 cms Inge and Andrew 1963 black ball point pen on a sheet of ledger paper 41.9 x 62.2 cms
£725 £1,450
Carole Gibbons and Douglas Abercrombie c.1959 blue ball point pen on paper laid on ledger paper 42 x 54.5 cms
£750
Carole Gibbons's Mother Posed Standing c.1957 blue ball point pen on paper laid on ledger paper, 55.9 x 36.8 cms
£750
Bill Skinner pencil & black ink on pink paper laid on ledger paper 58.4 x 41.9 cms
£725
The Scottish Gallery 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HZ Tel 0131 558 1200 Email mail@scottish-gallery.co.uk www.scottish-gallery.co.uk
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