Archibald C. Dawson ARSA

Works

Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Head of a child

The mask

Mother and child

Youth
1915

Portrait Study of Miss Nelson
1919

Ophelia
1923
£2

Portrait of Miss Betty Liddell
1923
£2

Kelpie
1924

Mark for black marble
1924

Benje
1925

J. A. Coia, ARIBA
1933

Portrait
1934

Miss Margot Gardner
1935

Hamish Dawson Davidson
1936

Sketch for a garden
1936

Helen Elizabeth Anne Hutchison
1936

Viscount Andover
1937

James Campbell Semple
1937

The artist's wife
1937

Helen Elizabeth Anne
1938

Moyra Mainds
1938
Year of artist's death.

Locations

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Address 5 Pembroke Street Glasgow | View on map
1914 - 1915
p. 333

Address 69 Minard Road Glasgow | View on map
1915 (Circa) - 1922 (Circa)
p. 333

Address 89 Gibson Street Glasgow | View on map
1922 - 1923

Address 318 Bath Street Glasgow | View on map
1924 (Circa) - 1933

Address 309 Bath Lane Glasgow | View on map
1933 - 1937

Address 54 Kelvingrove Street Glasgow | View on map
1937 - 1938
p. 399

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Directed The Glasgow School of Art: Modelling Classes
1923 (Circa) - 1933 (Circa)
Head of Department for Modelling and Sculpture and Ceramics

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Eighth, 1924
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Ninth, 1925
'Benje'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Seventh, 1933
'J. A. Coia ARIBA'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Eighth, 1934
'Portrait'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Ninth, 1935
'Miss Margot Gardner'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Tenth, 1936
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Eleventh, 1937
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twelfth, 1938
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Thirteenth, 1939
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, 1915
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1919
'Portrait Study of Miss Nelson'

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1923
'Kelpie'

Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938

Institutional and Business Connections

Adjudicated on a panel at The Glasgow School of Art
1928
Assessor

Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1936

Member of The Scottish Modern Arts Association
1936 (Circa)

Partner in Dawson & Young
1936
Exacts dates TBC

Professor of modeling at The Glasgow School of Art
1929 - 1938
Head of Department for Modelling and Sculpture

Received award from The Glasgow School of Art
1911 - 1913
Haldane Trust Award

Received bursary from The Glasgow School of Art
1912 - 1913
£25
Recipiant of Haldane Trust, day class Bursary for Modelling and Sculpture.

Student at The Glasgow School of Art
1911 - 1913

Teacher of design at The Glasgow School of Art
1929 - 1938
Taught design, decorative art and figure pottery at the School of Architecture.

Teacher of modeling at The Glasgow School of Art
1920 - 1938
Teacher of stone carving and colleagues of Alexander Proudfoot and James Gray. Evening Class Moniter, 1912-13

Teacher of stone carving The Glasgow School of Art
1923 (Circa)
p. 4

Worked with Gillespie Kidd & Coia

Personal and Professional Connections

In same peer group as Alexander Proudfoot
1930 (Circa) - 1957

Made bust of Jack Antonio Coia
1933

Predecessor of Benno Schotz
1938 - 1961
as Head of Sculpture at The Glasgow School of Art

Sources

Annual Report of The Glasgow School of Art 1928-29
1928
Assessor

Artists' Papers Register
2007
http://www.apr.ac.uk/artists/searches/artistrecs.asp?ARID=GB/NNAF/P542943 (accessed 17/3/2008)

Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938 The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938

Prospectus of The Glasgow School of Art, Session 1913-14
1913
p. 21

Prospectus of The Glasgow School of Art, Session 1923-24
1923
p. 4

Prospectus of The Glasgow School of Art, Session 1933-34
1933

Public Sculpture of Glasgow Public Sculpture of Britain Volume Five
2002
p. 481

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 1, A-D. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1990 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1990
p. 333

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. 398

The Scottish Modern Arts Association; Thirtieth Annual Report for year 1936
1936
p. 20