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Glasgow Art Club is a club for practising and retired artists and lay members with an interest in the arts, that has become over the generations “a meeting place for artists, business leaders and academics.”〔(The Herald Scotland article 29 December 2009 ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 == History and premises == One of Glasgow's, and Scotland’s, most respected institutions〔〔(The Herald Scotland article 5 March 2011 ''Bankers in the frame to help out historic art institution'' ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 Glasgow Art Club was founded in 1867 by amateur artist William Dennistoun and friends. Following initial discussions at a tea room above a baker’s shop in Candleriggs, Glasgow, on the proposal to form a club, the first formal meetings of the club were held at the Waverley Temperance Hotel, on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, with Dennistoun elected the club’s first president.〔(Glasgow Herald article 6 June 1893 ''Glasgow Art Club'' ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 Membership was to grow during the 1870s, with professional artists joining and exhibitions being held and in 1875 the club moved to another hotel called the Waverley, this time one on the city’s Sauchiehall Street. From there the club was to relocate to the Royal Hotel on the city’s George Square, renting rooms for six months at a time, where life and sketching classes were held. Membership of the club began to be extended beyond painters (in 1881 the pioneering photographer James Craig Annan was admitted as a ‘’photographic artist’’〔(Article Sunday Herald 5 March 2006 ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 and in 1903 John M. Crawford (another former pupil of Hamilton Academy), Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, became the first architect to be elected President of Glasgow Art Club.)〔(University of Strathclyde – ''Who’s Who in Glasgow 1909'' ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 '' In 1878 the club moved to rented premises at 62 Bothwell Street〔 and the need to raise funds led to a change in the club’s constitution and the admission in 1886 of male lay members with an interest in the arts (admission of women not extended until 1982.〔〔(Glasgow Herald article 27 March 1982 ''Club opens its doors to women after 100 years'' ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 ) With membership burgeoning new premises were rented at 151 Bath Street, these formally opened on 12 November 1886〔(Glasgow Herald article 13 November 1886 ''Glasgow Art Club'' ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 but soon afterwards two adjacent town houses on Bath Street were purchased, these converted by the architect John Keppie, a member of the club, creating also an exhibition gallery in what were the back gardens of the adjacent houses. It has recently been discovered that the young Charles Rennie Mackintosh was involved in the decorative details of the renovations and created a mural.〔(The Herald, Glasgow, article 29 December 2009 ''Treasures of a city institution to be shared as art club opens its doors'' ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 The club’s new premises were formally opened on 14 June 1893.〔(Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951 ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕〔(Glasgow Art Club history ) Retrieved 2011-08-17〕 The club has recently embarked on a major programme of renovation of its historic category A Listed building on Bath Street, Glasgow.〔 The club first admitted women as members in 1984, and elected its first female president, Efric McNeil, in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glasgow Art Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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