Glasgow School of Art, interior View of sculpture room
SC 677593
Description Glasgow School of Art, interior View of sculpture room
Date 1909
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 677593
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 20762/13
Scope and Content Life Modelling Room (Studio 20), Glasgow School of Art, No 167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow The life modelling room, a basement studio in the north-west corner of the Glasgow School of Art, was identified in the original plans for use by the 'evening school'. This photograph of the interior was taken in 1910 by Harry Bedford Lemere. The studio, one of three large inter-connecting rooms, has an electric light system which was a comparatively new technology of the time. The lights run on a series of pulleys, allowing each bulb to be positioned directly above a student's workplace. The School's architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, used electric light in his design of the studios, creating airy rooms, lit in the evening by electricity. This was in sharp contrast with the stuffiness of gas-lit rooms common in art schools of that day. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference box 57
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