| Description | An exhibition based on the works by Cowie in the permanent collection;
/1. b/w photographs of works, photographs of places relevant to Cowie with comments written on rear, polaroid photographs of works in private collections, set of negatives of works, receipt for material given to Cordelia Oliver, ms. list of material held at GMA following exhibition,ts. list of material belonging to Ruth Christie and Dr Barbara Shearman(Cowie's daughters) on loan to SNGMA, letters to Dr Cowie and Mrs Christie in 1986 re drawings and engravings left at SNGMA after exhibition, correspondence with Scottish Gallery re collection of Cowie works left at SNGMA, various requests for reproductions or catalogues after exhibition, correspondence with Cowie's daughters and niece (mainly mss.) re possible information for monograph by Richard Calvocoressi, correspondence re Cordelia Oliver's commission for monograph for EUP, correspondence with various galleries re reproductions of Cowie works for monograph
/2. ts. of exhibition information sheet, ts. of synopsis for exhibition or for booklet, letter from Peter Murray of Birkbeck College recalling his time as a pupil of Cowie's, correspondence with Dr Barbara Cowie (also Shearman, before reverting to maiden name) and Ruth Christie, beginning in March 1977, re information and reminiscences on their father for proposed monograph, correspondence with Ray Howard-Jones, pupil of Cowie's at Hospitalfield, correspondence with lenders and signed indemnity forms
/3. correspondence re publication of Cowie booklet, letter from Phaidon Press returning ektachrome of 'Portrait Group', request from EUP for permission to reproduce 'Book and Leaves' in Cordelia Oliver's book on Cowie, request from Library of Congress for Calvocoressi's book on Cowie, correspondence with Jac Cowie re copies of booklet, correspondence with Cowie family re misprints in booklet and printing of errata slip, printer's proof of booklet, ts. of booklet, correspondence with William Buchanan, Head of Fine Art Studies at Glasgow School of Art re possible Cowie exhibition there
/4. 3 copies of ts. of exhibition booklet, proofs corrected with some additions dated 22/5/78, preparatory notes and correspondence for booklet, ms. list of possible contacts (family members, former pupils), ts. transcript of Scotsman obituary, photocopy of Glasgow Herald and Scotsman obituary and other press notices, ts. of Cowie's RSA record with ms. annotations, ms. list of sales through RSA and Aitken Dott, photocopy of article from Scottish Art Review on 'Children in Art', misc. rough notes on various works, photocpy of verses from Don Juan, ms. notes from conversation with Barbara Shearman, correspondence with Sister Inglis of Craiglockhart College of Education re identity of siiter in 'Noon', ts. of notes on Cowie's background from his niece, Betty, marked 'very important as background', further rough notes on works and biography, notes on biography arranged chronologically, chronology of exhibitions at RSA, Royal Glasgow Institute and Aberdeen, ms. notes from taped conversation with Barbara Shearman (daughter), photocopy of article in Scots Magazine, ts. account of Cowie from W. Percival-Prescott, 129th Annual Report of RSA (1956) with report of Cowie's death, application form for admission to Hospitalfield
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