Gray, Alasdair (author)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1934-2019. - 2019
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Eighteen family photographs and reproductions of six artworks by Alasdair Gray.
File
Identifier: Acc.12828
Scope and Contents
Apparently collected and arranged for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009), this collection consists of 5 large photograph album pages containing photographs, mostly of Alasdair Gray's family and early childhood, with photographs of some murals, and reproductions of several early artworks annotated 'Unceilinged blood verse'.
Dates:
circa 1932-1957.
Literary, artistic and personal correspondence and papers of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14602/1-431
Scope and Contents
At the heart of this archive are the contents of the two filing cabinets which sat in Alasdair Gray’s study, and which have been catalogued here in their original filing order. These contain correspondence and papers relating to Alasdair Gray’s literary and artistic endeavours, as well as extensive personal correspondence and research materials.The most recent sections of the archive mainly relate to his last great work, his ‘paraphrasing’ of Dante’s ‘Divine comedy’, published by...
Dates:
1885-2019, undated.
Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates:
1951-2011.
Manuscripts, typescripts and other papers relating to the publication of works of Alasdair Gray, with some articles, reviews and biographical material.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9247/1-52
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:
'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981).
'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985).
'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987).
'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).
Dates:
1954-circa 1987.
Photographs, slides, transparencies and scans relating to the work and activities of Alasdair Gray; with related digital and analogue media.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13950 Box 1(1)-Box 9
Scope and Contents
Includes slides, transparencies and photographs of artworks of Alasdair Gray and some of his friends and contemporaries, as well as audiovisual and digital material. The photo albums of images of Hillhead and the west end of Glasgow were likely collected to act as source materials for the Hillhead SPT subway mural.Many of the slides, transparencies and photographs found here were collated for use in 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009), and some were previously deposited with...
Dates:
1896-2011.
Filtered By
- Subject: Photographs. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Correspondence. 3
- Manuscripts. 3
- Slides. Photographs. 3
- Typescripts. 3
- Compact discs. 2
- Floppy disks. Magnetic disks. 2
- Negatives. Photographs. 2
- Proofs. Printed matter. 2
- Transparencies. 2
- Audiocassettes. 1
- Born digital. 1
- DVDs. 1
- Digital audio tapes. 1
- Drafts. Documents. 1
- Drawings. Visual works. 1
- Financial records. 1
- Illustrations. Layout features. 1
- Novels. 1
- Personal papers. 1
- Plays. 1
- Press cuttings. Information artifacts. 1
- Radio scripts. 1
- Reviews. Document genre. 1
- Videocassettes. 1
- Works of art. 1
- Zip disks. 1 + ∧ less
∨ more