Mystery Children’s Book Illustrations TAGS: Archives | Edinburgh College of Art | M. B. Matheson We can’t find anything about the author/ illustrator M. B. Matheson from Lockharton Crescent, Edinburgh so far in staff and student lists. So we’re asking for your help. Do any …Continue reading →

From the Art Collection #75 TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collections | James McGlade Mastaba by James McGlade First published 3.10.2013

From the Art Collection #73 TAGS: Dorothy Black | Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collection | MGS Intern Twist by Dorothy Black Today’s From the Art Collection has been selected by our new Museums Galleries Scotland intern, Colette Bush. She writes: I started last week as the new …Continue reading →

From the Art Collections #43 TAGS: Charlotte Roseberry | ECA Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | From the Art Collection Extrude by Charlotte Roseberry It has been a very exciting few days for ECA Collections as, for the first time since the curatorial team started, works have been formally collected …Continue reading →

Ethiopian Horses in the thesis collection These stunning watercolours of zebras in north-eastern Africa are a surprising find in the Library’s collections of early theses, held in Special Collections. They come from a thesis written by J. …Continue reading →

Peter Higgs and Hunting the Boson Peter Higgs – one of the University’s most famous living physicists – is the subject of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.  We have loaned one of …Continue reading →

Asylum Art on Loan from Special Collections / LHSA These art works, from our Laycock Collection, were created by William Bartholomew at the Crichton Royal Hospital in the 1830s.  They are some of the earliest examples of art created …Continue reading →

New Darwin discovery This appears to be a previously-unknown collection of shells formed by Charles Darwin.  Whilst cataloguing chosen exhibits for an upcoming exhibition, myself and Gillian McCay the geology curator tipped out …Continue reading →

LUNA highlights available on Flickr TAGS: Development The CRC’s image collection is available through the LUNA image discovery tool, and can be accessed here. This is great, but there’s a need to get the collections well-publicised, through …Continue reading →

ECA Collection at the Annexe : Dame Blackadder TAGS: Annexe | ECA | ECA Collection | Edinburgh College of Art | Scottish Art A series of articles on the relationship between the Library Annexe and the ECA. One of the gems being stored out at the Annexe amongst the ECA Collection is the …Continue reading →