Alasdair Gray Drawings from the 1950s and 60s - The Scottish Gallery

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
THESCOTTISHGALLERY
CONTEMPORARY ART SINCE 1842
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 £725
Inge and Andrew 1963 black ball point pen on a sheet of ledger paper 41.9 x 62.2 cms £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
THESCOTTISHGALLERY
CONTEMPORARY ART SINCE 1842