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  • Portrait oil painting of an artist in his studio. Next to him stands a large jug filled with paint brushes, and behind is a colourful painting hanging on the wall.

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    Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell

    A celebrated Scottish colourist

  • Black and white photograph taken in 1901 of Adam Christie. He is wearing a waistcoat and outer jacket, with a flat cap. His arms are folded and he is looking into the camera with a stern expression on his bearded face.

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    Adam Christie

    Writer, musician, self-taught artist and long-term resident at Sunnyside Hospital

  • A woman holding a paintbrush and looking at her canvas

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    Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley

    Beloved painter of Glasgow street children and expressive coastal landscapes

  • A sketch of a person

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    Faed Family of Artists

    Two generations of celebrated painters and engravers

  • Black and white photo of a person in a shirt and glasses leaning over a table. They are marking a series of film negatives with a pen, as light shines upwards from underneath.

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    Norman McLaren

    Scottish-Canadian innovator, director and producer – ‘the poet of animation’

  • Black and white portrait photograph of a serious looking person wearing a suit and tie. They have a handlebar moustache and side parted hair, and they are staring off to the left.

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    Francis (Fra) Newbery

    Artist director of Glasgow School of Art, who championed the ‘Glasgow style’ and the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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    Dr Margaret Caroline Tait

    Avant-garde film maker and the first Scottish woman to direct a feature length film

  • Black and white portrait photo of a young looking John Thomson from 1898. Thomson has a mutton-chop style beard, with his long dark moustache joining up with even longer white sideburns. He is wearing a dark suit, with a white shirt and tie.

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    John Thomson

    Early photographer celebrated for his ground-breaking images of China

  • Image of Dudley D Watkin in a Beano comic strip. Pictured handing a book to a group of children titled:

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    Dudley D. Watkins

    The unsung hero responsible for “Oor Willie! Your Willie! A’body's Willie!”

  • Black and white drawing of a person seated at a table writing a letter. They are using a quill pen and are looking at the camera, with their other hand resting against their face. They are wearing a jacket with many buttons and a frilled white shirt.

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    Alexander Wilson

    'Founder of American ornithology'

  • Black and white photograph of a person working on a very large stained glass window. They are carefully painting a section of the glass with a fine brush.

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    William Wilson

    Best known stained-glass artist of post-war Scotland

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