Scottish Sculpture Archive, Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990

Type: Archive

Author: Fiona Pearson

Other Authors: Helen Smailes

Publication Date: 1990

Collection Title: National Galleries of Scotland, Scottish Sculpture Archive

Collection Physical Description: 1.23 cubic meters (23 boxes), covering Scottish sculpture for the years 1540 to 1990. Created by Fiona Pearson and Helen Smailes of the National Galleries of Scotland, as a result of research for the 1991 Royal Scottish Academy exhibition 'Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990'. The National Galleries of Scotland Scottish Sculpture Archive contains the following material: Artists files A-Z; Manuscript references; Subjects; Techniques; Virtue & Vision exhibition filing; Collections; Norman Forrest File; Hew Lorimer File (including lecture by Fiona Pearson on his work in the context of the history of Scottish sculpture, copy also at NLS); Bibliographical material; Chronology (tripartite 1540-1990 of history, works of art and manuscripts, copy also at NLS); Image packs, slides, negatives, photo-binders A-Z by artist (23 vols) and Scottish National War Memorial sculptures research files.

Collection Context: This archive is located in the archive of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Fiona Pearson has also deposited a duplicate copy of the 'Virtue and Vision' chronology and the text of her lecture on Hew Lorimer (in the context of the history of Scottish sculpture) at National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Department.

Start Date: 1540

End Date: 1990

Archive collection/item number: PG A1, accession no: PG 2008/1

Citing this record

'Scottish Sculpture Archive, Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/reference.php?id=msib6_1233062843, accessed 08 Jun 2023]